From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Is it obvious that string-match syntax matching is affected by the current buffer?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:40:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc508d8d-ef5b-456c-a414-c068159b0303@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy49lapf3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
> > When I work with a string then I feel it should not be affected
> > by settings of the current buffer, because it's not buffer text
> > anymore, but a separate object.
>
> I agree, yet at the same time this begs the question: which setting to
> use, if not the current buffer's?
>
> Using some global setting for them instead would be wrong just as often,
> if not more.
Probably it would help to mention such dependence on syntax
and case-conversion and tables in the doc string, explicitly
pointing out that this pertains also when the function is used
on a string instead of a buffer.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-14 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-13 16:31 Is it obvious that string-match syntax matching is affected by the current buffer? Tom
2016-03-13 16:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-03-13 16:56 ` Tom
2016-03-13 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 19:19 ` Tom
2016-03-13 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 0:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-14 0:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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