Using 7.3.1004 on Win 7 64 bit.
gvim -u NONE -U NONE --noplugins
:set re=0
:echo split(" TBD NOTE XXX FIXME TODO \n")
['TBD', 'NOTE', 'XXX', 'FIXME', 'TODO', '
']
:set re=1
:echo split(" TBD NOTE XXX FIXME TODO \n")
['TBD', 'NOTE', 'XXX', 'FIXME', 'TODO']
This is a distilled case, it is affecting the results from the autoload/syntaxcomplete.vim plugin.
David