From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename on w32 does not preserve match-data? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4589B680.3080606@student.lu.se> <45928AEE.8030707@gmail.com> <4592B15F.4040302@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167426170 9694 80.91.229.10 (29 Dec 2006 21:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 22:02:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H0OsI-0004J2-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:02:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0OsH-0002f5-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Os5-0002cf-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Os4-0002cK-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Os4-0002cH-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.228.189.52] (helo=alfajor.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0Ory-0004CG-CY; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E16F71CD5D; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:02:19 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" In-Reply-To: <4592B15F.4040302@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed\, 27 Dec 2006 18\:46\:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) 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:64440 Archived-At: >>>> In thre particular case of convert-standard-filename, I think it would be >>>> wrong to add save-match-data (unless there's a particular reason to do it, >>>> of course), but I agree that it's not worth removing it either. >>> The code using convert-standard-filename probably already feels a bit >>> overloaded. >> Which code are you talking about? > I did not mean a specific case, but I did look around to find missing > quoting before. Let me see if I remember... Nowhere in your examples was a need for save-match-data, so removing save-match-data from convert-standard-filename wouldn't affect them. Stefan