From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:54:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tvg4bho.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvy4xov3ja.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> These are 4 separate expressions. How do you run them?
>> i was playing around in *scratch*, to test out various regular
>> expressions on my data, and did a C-x C-e after each line.
>
> C-x C-e itself might overwrite the match data while looking at the
> buffer to decide what to evaluate. And after running that command, tons
> of other code is run, such as post-command-hook, process-filters,
> timers, pre-redisplay-function and whatnot, all of which will gladly
> overwrite the match-data.
Most but possibly not all of them are run in an implicit
save-match-data.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-26 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-25 4:33 Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18? Alexis
2014-05-25 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-26 0:01 ` Alexis
2014-05-25 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-26 0:22 ` Alexis
2014-05-26 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-26 18:54 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-05-27 8:20 ` Alexis
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