From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:46:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46643852.6070709@gmx.at> <46665AD7.7040706@gmx.at> <87k5ueq23m.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> <87myz8c10t.fsf@jurta.org> <18030.3441.204697.244518@rgrjr.dyndns.org> <87zm3515r4.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181670383 31355 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2007 17:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 19:46:22 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 1HyARh-0003Mw-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyARh-0003tL-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyARd-0003sx-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyARc-0003sj-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyARb-0003sg-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyARb-0006DE-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DB01226B; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:46:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Why am I in this ROOM in DOWNTOWN PHILADELPHIA? In-Reply-To: <87zm3515r4.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue\, 12 Jun 2007 19\:45\:19 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:72706 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> Bob Rogers writes: >>> The only possible use for a "string-match" that doesn't set the match >>> data is the boolean return value, right? So how about "string-match-= p"? >> >> Er, no. string-match returns the index of the match (or nil for no ma= tch), >> which is actually quite useful. > > Since it returns the value of (match-beginning 0), how about the name > `string-match-0'? It is short, and zero has additional mnemonic that > no data is set by this function. How about string-match-no-record? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."