On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:30 PM Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

On 01.05.2020 21:19, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
> `match-string` could be aliased to `string-match-result` or
> `string-match-value`.

Wouldn't 'string-match' match any of these names better?

But `string-match` is already taken?!

string-match: apply regexp (function untouched)

string-match-value: extract value from previous match (instead of current `match-string`)