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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does save-match-data do what it does?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:40:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efkw2mpp.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woyonrau.fsf@gmail.com>


On 2018-03-07, at 10:55, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> save-match-data works by assigning the current match data to a temporary
>> variable, doing its stuff and restoring it again.  Why not this?
>>
>> (defmacro save-match-data-icmd (&rest body)
>>   "An alternative definition of `save-match-data'."
>>   (declare (indent 0) (debug t))
>>   `(let ((inhibit-changing-match-data t))
>>      ,@body))
>
> What if body want to use match data?

What is the offical ascii art for a person clapping their forehead with
their palm?

Thanks!

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



      reply	other threads:[~2018-03-07 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-07  5:03 Why does save-match-data do what it does? Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-07  9:55 ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-07 10:40   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]

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