From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-from-minibuffer & match data
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:48:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsj72x40d.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnkd1j6q.m2k.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl
> I've put a save-match-data into the function to solve the issue, but I'd
> just like to make sure this isn't a bug in emacs.
No, you've just been lucky until now. The general rule is that any
function is liable to thrash the match-data, except for some exceptions,
most of which are primitives such as car/cdr/aset/aref, match-string,
etc...
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-19 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-18 20:06 read-from-minibuffer & match data Joost Kremers
2012-12-19 0:05 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-19 0:48 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-19 3:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-19 5:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-19 5:18 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.15639.1355876062.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-19 12:26 ` Joost Kremers
2012-12-19 15:56 ` Barry Margolin
2012-12-19 20:43 ` Joost Kremers
2012-12-20 6:01 ` Barry Margolin
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