From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <266155d4-f9c0-8ed3-8df5-32feea171076@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="110135"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:42:19 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5WE-000SYx-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:42:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60584 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5WD-0003lO-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5UV-00014S-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5UV-0001zi-28; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5UU-00017e-7N; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 01 May 2020 14:32:17 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248619 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm not sure `match-string` qualifies as > a string-manipulating function. Maybe it belongs in a "regexp-matching" > category instead? match-string never directly operates on a regexp. It returns the string which was matched by a match or search operation. The match or search operation typically matches or searches for a regexp. However, (match-string 0) can be useful after a non-regexp search. So, does it belong in the "regexp" category? Perhaps 90% yes and 10% no. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)