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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 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 20:13:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy49lapf3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20160313T201129-47@post.gmane.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.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14  0:13 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 [this message]
2016-03-14  0:40           ` Drew Adams

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