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bug#52785: 29.0.50; user-full-name: "Chop off everything after the first


From: Sam Steingold
Subject: bug#52785: 29.0.50; user-full-name: "Chop off everything after the first comma"
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:04:38 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (darwin)

> * Eli Zaretskii <ryvm@tah.bet> [2021-12-24 21:52:16 +0200]:
>
>> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:35:00 -0500
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>   /* Chop off everything after the first comma. */
>>   q = strchr (p, ',');
>>   full = make_string (p, q ? q - p : strlen (p));
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> The result is that when full name is specified in the system as
>> "Steingold, Sam", `user-full-name' returns "Steingold".
>> 
>> Are we really sure that this is still the intended behavior?
>
> Yes, I think so.

Why?

>> If yes, we might want to document it in the doc string and info.
>
> Feel free to suggest a documentation patch.

Sure, as soon as I understand the reason for this behavior (because it
has to be included in the doc!)

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