diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+* 0.2.1.2 (28 January 2013)
+
+  - Patch from Daniel Wagner to make splitting lazier when using
+    keepDelimsR.  Previously nothing was output until encountering a
+    delimiter; now it can start outputting a Text chunk before
+    reaching a delimiter.
+
 * 0.2.1.1 (24 September 2012)
 
   - Update this CHANGES file with details from the past two releases.
diff --git a/README b/README
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,3 +26,7 @@
 
   Once the documentation has been built, you can access it by 
   pointing your browser to dist/doc/html/split/index.html.
+
+Running the tests:
+
+    runhaskell -isrc test/Properties.hs
diff --git a/split.cabal b/split.cabal
--- a/split.cabal
+++ b/split.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                split
-Version:             0.2.1.1
+Version:             0.2.1.2
 Stability:           stable
 
 Description:         A collection of various methods for splitting
diff --git a/src/Data/List/Split/Internals.hs b/src/Data/List/Split/Internals.hs
--- a/src/Data/List/Split/Internals.hs
+++ b/src/Data/List/Split/Internals.hs
@@ -211,7 +211,13 @@
 -- | Merge delimiters with adjacent chunks to the left.
 mergeRight :: SplitList a -> SplitList a
 mergeRight [] = []
-mergeRight ((Text c) : (Delim d) : l) = Text (c++d) : mergeRight l
+-- below fanciness is with the goal of laziness: we want to start returning
+-- stuff before we've necessarily discovered a delimiter, in case we're
+-- processing some infinite list with no delimiter
+mergeRight ((Text c) : l) = Text (c++d) : mergeRight lTail
+  where (d, lTail) = case l of
+                     Delim d' : l' -> (d', l')
+                     _ -> ([], l)
 mergeRight (c : l) = c : mergeRight l
 
 -- | Drop an initial blank chunk according to the given 'EndPolicy'.