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Re: FYI: functions.m4: restore mistakenly removed spaces in sed LHS


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: FYI: functions.m4: restore mistakenly removed spaces in sed LHS
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:41:51 +0200
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 Jim> Hi!
 Jim> Removing a string of SPC bytes before a TAB is usually just fine.
 Jim> I suspect that it is always ok when only indentation is affected,
 Jim> but in character ranges, regular expressions, sed expressions, etc.
 Jim> it's *not* ok to convert ` \t' to `\t'.  Instead we should convert
 Jim> ` \t' to `\t '. (where \t is the TAB character, of course)

I've been faster on this one (the amount of mistakes in my message
being a clear sign that I really meant to be the first one :) 

But actually, sorry, I did not understand you were going for it too.




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