From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:01:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zji5flwk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ioouj80l.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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"?
It does; the above results were derived from running both 24.4.50.18 and
24.3 with the -Q option. However, putting the code inside a `let` as
suggested by Stefan does result in the correct output being produced.
Alexis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-26 0:01 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
2014-05-26 0:01 ` Alexis [this message]
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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