[Erc-help] Re: Possible bug in erc-cmd-QUOTE?

[Michael O. <mw...@gn...>]

boj...@dd... (Johan Bockg=C3=A5rd) writes:

> Jorgen Schaefer <fo...@fo...> writes:
>
>> I know I'm not really involved anymore and such, but IIRC we made
>> that regexp specifically like this if anyone ever wanted to send
>> leading whitespace to the server - it's a _QUOTE_ command after
>> all, and meant not to meddle with the arguments. But I guess some
>> people think some meddling is ok, so that's mostly a matter of
>> taste.
>
> What forcer said.
>
> I like this variant:
>
>    (string-match "^ ?\\(.*\\)" line)
>
> If there is a leading space character it is removed. Anything else,
> like tabs, is left alone.

That works.  I'm not very fond of initial whitespace being sent, but
I'll go with the consensus.

I'm using a slight variant: (string-match "^ ?\\(.+\\)" line) because
the user probably doesn't want a line with only one space to be turned
into an empty string -- better to not send anything in that case.

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