From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18? Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:54:11 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <871tvg4bho.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87bnumh3zh.fsf@gmail.com> <87y4xpfkwt.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401130491 30612 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2014 18:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 18:54:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 26 20:54:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp02i-00054p-24 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 20:54:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp02h-00023a-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 14:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp02Y-0001zs-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 14:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp02S-0003F4-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 14:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp02S-0003Ew-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 14:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp02R-0004XH-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 20:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f462a0.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.98.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 20:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f462a0.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 20:54:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f462a0.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2sjYibbhidJEhD5XtO6JWzqVSaE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172115 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> These are 4 separate expressions. How do you run them? >> i was playing around in *scratch*, to test out various regular >> expressions on my data, and did a C-x C-e after each line. > > C-x C-e itself might overwrite the match data while looking at the > buffer to decide what to evaluate. And after running that command, tons > of other code is run, such as post-command-hook, process-filters, > timers, pre-redisplay-function and whatnot, all of which will gladly > overwrite the match-data. Most but possibly not all of them are run in an implicit save-match-data. -- David Kastrup