From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it obvious that string-match syntax matching is affected by the current buffer?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:13:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy49lapf3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20160313T201129-47@post.gmane.org
> When I work with a string then I feel it should not be affected
> by settings of the current buffer, because it's not buffer text
> anymore, but a separate object.
I agree, yet at the same time this begs the question: which setting to
use, if not the current buffer's?
Using some global setting for them instead would be wrong just as often,
if not more.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-14 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-13 16:31 Is it obvious that string-match syntax matching is affected by the current buffer? Tom
2016-03-13 16:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-03-13 16:56 ` Tom
2016-03-13 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 19:19 ` Tom
2016-03-13 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 0:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-03-14 0:40 ` Drew Adams
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