Hi!
I think a recent change to org-split-string in master may have made logging of state changes a little uglier, adding "\\" and an empty line with trailing whitespace. Steps to reproduce:
1. Start fresh Emacs with no local configuration (e.g. mkdir /tmp/emacs && HOME=/tmp/emacs emacs)
2. Install org-plus-contrib package dated 20170731
3. Create an org file with the following two lines:
~~~~~~
#+TODO: TODO(!) DONE(!)
* Test
~~~~~~
4. Move point to the beginning of the "* Test" headline and call org-todo with C-c C-t to change it to a TODO item
Expected result:
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* TODO Test
- State "TODO" from [2017-08-01 Tue 11:18]
~~~~~~
Actual result:
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* TODO Test
- State "TODO" from [2017-08-01 Tue 11:18] \\
~~~~~~
Note the " \\" and blank line with trailing whitespace in the actual result.
I strongly suspect this is a result of a change in behavior of org-split-string in f776e65373. Before that commit, calling
(org-split-string "" "\n")
as org-store-log-note is doing returned nil. After f776e65373 it returns '("").
IMHO the new behavior of org-split-string actually seems correct to me (splitting a string should arguably never result in nil), so I've fixed this by patching org-store-log-note as demonstrated in the attached patch.
Regards,
Dale
org-store-log-note.diff