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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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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