From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"'Bastien'" <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: 13260@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13260: 24.3.50; save match data for core functions like `delete-char' and`delete-backward-char'?
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:03:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20FFDE327FB04D8A913153445844208A@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfw2wgtpe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> 99% of the functions can destroy the match-data, even though they
> may preserve it in 99% of the circumstances. And in 99% of the
> cases where they do destroy the match-data, nobody cares anyway,
> which is why we shouldn't always save-match-data.
This is well put, and helpful. How about saying something similar in the Elisp
manual? It provides a good guideline for understanding when you might want to
save match data.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-24 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-23 15:18 bug#13260: 24.3.50; save match data for core functions like `delete-char' and `delete-backward-char'? Bastien Guerry
2012-12-23 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-23 16:40 ` Bastien
2012-12-24 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24 1:03 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-12-24 1:24 ` Bastien
2012-12-24 5:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24 1:25 ` Bastien
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