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: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <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> <87odjjzaoz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85ps3xoui7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182020579 11685 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 19:02:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:02:59 +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: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 21:02:56 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 1HzdXz-00082X-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:02:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdXy-00083E-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdN9-0001Jv-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdN8-0001Ht-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdN8-0001Hi-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdN7-0006W4-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdN7-00071c-B2; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <85ps3xoui7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:03:28 +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:73101 Archived-At: Apropos: it appears to have been lost in the noise: save-match-data in its current implementation is _not_ a noop around code not touching match-data, since it converts integer data into markers (which move their positions under buffer changes) and then back again. Is there a compelling rationale for that? I am sure it was done to fix a bug, and I can imagine what the bug looked like.