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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18?
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 16:35:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ioouj80l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnumh3zh.fsf@gmail.com>

> From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 14:33:22 +1000
> 
>     (setq address "mailto:alexis@example.com")
>     (setq re "mailto")
>     (string-match re address)
>     (match-string 0 address)
> 
> In 24.3, the call to `string-match` correctly returns 0, and the call to
> `match-string` correctly returns "mailto".
> 
> In 24.4.50.18 (more specifically, git commit
> 08005cbfff9227ac73cbee5f3f5afa65f8c27849), the call to `string-match`
> correctly returns 0, but the call to `match-string` consistently returns
> "m" instead of "mailto".
> 
> Am i doing something wrong, is there an issue with my local setup, or is
> this a bug?

I cannot reproduce this with today's trunk.  Does it happen to you in
"emacs -Q"?



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-25 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-25  4:33 Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18? Alexis
2014-05-25 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-05-26  0:01   ` Alexis
2014-05-25 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-26  0:22   ` Alexis
2014-05-26 17:45     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-26 18:54       ` David Kastrup
2014-05-27  8:20       ` Alexis

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