Re: read-from-minibuffer & match data

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article 
<slrnkd49ne.m2k.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>,
 Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article 
> > <slrnkd3ck6.m2k.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>,
> >  Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Still, I'll notify the developer of autopair, so he can decide for
> >> himself if he should do something about it.
> >
> > Why should he do something? If he needs to use string-match in his 
> > implementation, what's wrong with that?
> 
> I'm not saying he should, that's up to him to decide. I'm not
> knowledgeable enough to have an opinion on the matter.
> 
> But on the face of it, autopair has nothing to do with
> read-from-minibuffer, so that makes me wonder whether similar unexpected
> interactions could happen with other parts of Emacs. The maintainer of
> autopair is much better able to decide that than I am.

I don't think it has anything to do specifically with the minibuffer. I 
think typing anywhere will do it. autopair's post-command-hook uses 
string-match. Also, autopair-on uses it, and it's called as part of 
switching into buffers to enable/disable the minor mode.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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