Re: Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18?

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

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.