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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving match data
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:01:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkSB8qxPktAU+rJgoQZuynEcQd033FJ7haSm_NyZ7ES0pg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmv97d89i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Fr., 16. Juni 2017 um
21:53 Uhr:

> >> > I think this statement is surprising
> >> Agreed.  That's why we have to write it explicitly in the doc ;-)
> > Could we also write it in the docstrings of the match-related functions
> > (match-beginning etc.)? I guess people are more likely to read those than
> > the manual.
>
> That might work, yes (tho in my experience, Elisp coder don't read
> docstrings nearly as much as I would have expected).
>

I guess a reasonable expectation is that nobody ever reads documentation.
Therefore systems should do the right thing when used in the most obvious
way.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-08 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-28 14:01 Saving match data Philipp Stephani
2016-09-28 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-28 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-28 16:49   ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-28 18:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-28 18:37       ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-28 20:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-28 20:15       ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-28 20:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-28 20:42           ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-28 20:58             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-09-29  2:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-08  4:02               ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-10-08  6:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-08 15:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-16 19:24   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-16 19:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-16 22:16       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-17 13:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 14:02           ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-08 15:56             ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-08 16:01       ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2016-09-28 17:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-09-29  9:29   ` Uwe Brauer

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