From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-match-data needs match-data
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:32:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqeb7tv3.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1184614733.340103.3340@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:38:53 -0700 <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> In this font lock function the match data is set properly only if
> (match-data) is called afterwards. Anyone knows why calling match-data
> after set-match-data is necessary here? Emacs 22.
>
>
> (defun ipa-font-lock-pos-info (limit)
> (re-search-forward "^(")
> (beginning-of-line)
> (let ((sexp-start (point-marker))
> sexp-end colon-end)
> (forward-sexp)
> (setq sexp-end (point-marker))
> (forward-char)
> (setq colon-end (point-marker))
> (set-match-data (list sexp-start ;; whole
> colon-end
> sexp-start ;; sexp
> sexp-end
> sexp-end ;; colon
> colon-end)))
> (match-data))
Returning non nil should be sufficient but this function looks flawed to
my in another way. Try
(when (re-search-forward "^(" limit t)
;; ...
t)
David
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