From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: save-match-data woes Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:00:33 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014804429 25566 195.204.10.66 (27 Feb 2002 10:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2002 10:07:09 GMT Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu, lektu@terra.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16g0zM-0006eG-00 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:07:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16g0vc-0006G1-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16g0ty-0006ES-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA21960; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:00:33 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: <200202262015.g1QKF5s16869@aztec.santafe.edu> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1582 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1582 On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > My experience is quite different: the match data is in 99% of the cases > used right after a call to a regexp-match function, with almost no > other functions called inbetween apart from some very primitive ones. > > That is my experience too. That's true for application code, but what about functions that implement core functionality? The latter can be run from unusual places, like all kinds of hooks we have around, in which case it should preserve the match data, right? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel