Re: [BUG] Re: 98e168b48 Add compatibility wrapper for string-clean-whitespace (Emacs 26 compatibility) [9.6-pre (release_9.5.5-920-g057193 @ /home/yantar92/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

>> It is available in Emacs-26, however (require 'subr-x) should be added.
>>
>> There is `org-trim' and despite it is less generic, likely it can be
>> used if subr-x is avoided for some reason.
>
> Ihor, sorry for overlooking that.  As Max mentions, indeed string-trim
> used to be in subr-x.  It's been available since Emacs 24 and was
> relocated with Emacs 28's a4ececf004e (Move string-trim functions to
> subr.el, 2021-03-24).
>
> I won't be at my computer much today or tomorrow, but, when I get a
> chance, I'll plan to add something like
>
>   (eval-when-compile (require 'subr-x))  ; Emacs < 28

I am a bit confused about usage of subr-x in Org.

I do recall Nicolas repeatedly voicing against usage of subr-x staff:

https://orgmode.org/list/87wo4en8qk.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr
>>>       2. we don't use "subr-x.el" in the code base. In particular, it would be
>>>	  nice to replace `when-let' with `when' + `let'. This change costs
>>>	  only one loc.

However, he did not mention the reasoning behind this, except a single
massage I was able to find:

https://orgmode.org/list/8737t0b2c9.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr
>>>  ... you are not using `if-let' anywhere if this patch. Besides, we still
>>>  cannot use subr-x, since it is a 24.4 library, and, AFAIR, we didn't
>>>  drop support for 24.3 yet.

If supporting Emacs 24 is the only blocker for subr-x, it should be safe
to use it.

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