bug#81501: 30.2; Problems in timeclock log entry parsing

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:24:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
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Petteri Hintsanen [26/Jul  6:19pm +03] wrote:
> I'd suggest to change timeclock-moment-regexp so that it requires a
> comment to have exactly one space after the seconds field, and then one
> or more non-newline characters.  Then timeclock-read-moment would be
> able to differentiate between nil and empty comments and also preserve
> any leading or trailing whitespace in comments.  It would be a backwards
> incompatible change, but I consider this acceptable because I find the
> current behavior clearly buggy.
>
> I can send a patch if maintainers agree.

Can you say more about what use cases might be broken by the change?

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Sean Whitton