From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "p.stephani2@gmail.com" <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
"33414@debbugs.gnu.org" <33414@debbugs.gnu.org>,
"pipcet@gmail.com" <pipcet@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#33414: [External] : bug#33414: 27.0.50; inhibit-changing-match-data can be t in syntax-propertize functions, breaking backtrace and looking-at
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 19:07:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488C0913D2AFE4CF312094CF3B19@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtnksm9g.fsf@gnus.org>
> > It's a variable we had since Emacs 23. The proposed replacements are
> > only useful if your Lisp program actually calls the APIs you propose
> > to extend, but it won't do if you call higher-level APIs.
>
> That's true, but the variable was only used a single place (in addition
> to in looking-at-p and string-match-p) so it seems unlikely that
> anybody is going to miss it.
>
> So I've made it obsolete in Emacs 29. We'll see whether anybody
> complains.
Why suppose that it's sufficient to search Emacs's own
source code, and then proclaim that somthing isn't used
anywhere "only used in a single place"?
FWIW, I use it. I'll need to know what the replacement
is. (I presume it's just `save-match-data'.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-07 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-17 13:30 bug#33414: 27.0.50; inhibit-changing-match-data can be t in syntax-propertize functions, breaking backtrace and looking-at Pip Cet
2018-11-17 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-17 14:14 ` Pip Cet
2018-11-17 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-12 13:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-04 18:39 ` Philipp
2021-09-04 19:33 ` bug#33414: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-05 9:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-05 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-05 9:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-05 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 18:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-07 19:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-10-07 19:11 ` bug#33414: [External] : " Lars Ingebrigtsen
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