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From: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
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 16:56:23 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20160313T175220-140@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56E59AD0.5070302@easy-emacs.de

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:
> 
> string-match here is called from inside a let, so the settings there 
> prevail.

Obviously, it was for my test only.

But that doesn't change my point that if there is no let then 
string-match uses the current buffer's syntax table which may
cause an unintended side effect, making the result of string-match
dependent on the current buffer.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-13 16:56 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 [this message]
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

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