From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:12:27 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ps3qlomf.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182350080 12858 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 14:34:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, miles.bader@necel.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: "Herbert Euler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 16:34:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I11GV-0005dd-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:34:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I11GU-0000Km-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I11FN-0007mT-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I11FM-0007lz-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I11FM-0007lp-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I11FI-0004um-4c; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I11FD-000Pbg-Cp; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:33:17 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Herbert Euler's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 16\:07\:58 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 233cb89e4cdd9c68f6fe52a505261b56 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1162 [June 20 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73431 Archived-At: >> > Yes, but if people get in the habit of using a new function >> > whenever they don't actually want to use the match data, >> > which I expect is most of the time, that need to think carefully >> > will be much less frequent. >> >> I think this is a delusion. >> >>We will have to agree to disagree. >> >>Would someone please implement string-match-p and looking-at-p? >>(A variable would be more general, but not as simple to use. >>Its only advantage over save-match-data would be a small speedup.) > > Is there somebody working on it? If not, I would like to start it. Do you want to work on a new variable? Since adding `-p' to only two match functions doesn't make sense. And adding `-p' to all functions makes even less sense. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/