bug#67203: [PATCH] * lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el (diary-list-entries-2) skip leading whitespace in diary entries

[Paul W. Rankin]

Sorry for the late reply. I actually stopped using calendar. Twas but a 
brief interlude. I think there's a problem with my patch anyway.

On 2023-12-15 11:11, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> "Paul W. Rankin" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife 
> of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > ---
> > When diary entries have more than a single space between date and 
> > entry
> > this is displayed in diary display. This skips the leading whitespace.
>
> Thanks.  Could you give examples of a file with and without this
> whitespace, and instructions for how to test your change?  I don't use
> diary much myself.
>
> Please also always send patches as attachments, formatted by
>
>     git format-patch -1
>
> Bonus points if you could also provide unit tests for this stuff, but
> that's optional since this library currently lacks any.
>
> >  lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el b/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el
> > index 0d894f1..6806039 100644
> > --- a/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el
> > +++ b/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el
> > @@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ any entries were found."
> >                  (setq date-start (line-end-position 0))
> >                  ;; Actual entry starts on the next-line?
> >                  (if (looking-at "[ \t]*\n[ \t]") (forward-line 1))
> > +                ;; We don't want leading whitespace
> > +                (skip-chars-forward " \t")
> >                  (setq entry-found t
> >                        entry-start (point))
> >                  (forward-line 1)
> > --
> > 2.42.0