From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46643852.6070709@gmx.at> <46665AD7.7040706@gmx.at> <87k5ueq23m.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> <87myz8c10t.fsf@jurta.org> <18030.3441.204697.244518@rgrjr.dyndns.org> <87zm3515r4.fsf@jurta.org> <85k5u8x2gm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87r6og6czf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85bqfkx0i5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4670E6C3.7070505@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181897341 13532 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 08:49:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles.bader@necel.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 10:48:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hz7UG-0000zd-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:48:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz7UG-0008MS-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz7Tm-00089C-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz7Tl-00088b-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz7Tl-00088V-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz7Tk-0001el-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz7Tk-0002Q6-3x; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:24 -0400 In-reply-to: <4670E6C3.7070505@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:57:07 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72931 Archived-At: Yes, I proposed to add `save-match-data' to a variety of file handling functions at the outermost level. The main reason for my proposal was to introduce some sort of consistency among functions in files.el with respect to saving match-data. I think that the file-manipulation functions that seem clean and abstract ought to call `save-match-data'.