On 2020-09-30 13:41, Glenn Morris wrote:
> The mailing list archives around the time of a commit are often informative.
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2005-05/msg01414.html

Absolutely great, Glenn!

An obvious follow-up observation: The patch that was applied was for
Luc's option #3, but it seems to me that the honest solution to the
problem with timers is his option #2, to put the fix in timers. Was that
ever done?

I'm guessing a decision at some point was made not to pursue Luc's
option #2 because the emacs documentation for timers[1] says, "If a
timer function calls functions that can change the match data, it should
save and restore the match data. See Saving Match Data". Reconsidering
that decision could be of benefit emacs-wide.

Attached is a new version of the patch, with the 'save-match-data'
restored. Thanks again, Glenn.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Timers.html

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