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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
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 10:55:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woyonrau.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu5ctr2u.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2018 06:03:37 +0100")

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?

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-07  9:55 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 [this message]
2018-03-07 10:40   ` Marcin Borkowski

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