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: Possible bug in `match-string` in 24.4.50.18? Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 13:45:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bnumh3zh.fsf@gmail.com> <87y4xpfkwt.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401126355 17122 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2014 17:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 17:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 26 19:45:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Woyy3-0008Be-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 19:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Woyy3-0004Bc-HL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 13:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Woyxq-0004Ay-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 13:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Woyxj-00069i-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 13:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:50868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Woyxj-00069c-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 13:45:27 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd/fU/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMQCzQSFBgNJIgECNIZF456B4Q4BKkZgWqDTCE X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd/fU/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMQCzQSFBgNJIgECNIZF456B4Q4BKkZgWqDTCE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="64239859" Original-Received: from 75-119-247-212.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.247.212]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 26 May 2014 13:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E7CA360203; Mon, 26 May 2014 13:45:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87y4xpfkwt.fsf@gmail.com> (Alexis's message of "Mon, 26 May 2014 10:22:58 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172111 Archived-At: >> These are 4 separate expressions. How do you run them? > i was playing around in *scratch*, to test out various regular > expressions on my data, and did a C-x C-e after each line. C-x C-e itself might overwrite the match data while looking at the buffer to decide what to evaluate. And after running that command, tons of other code is run, such as post-command-hook, process-filters, timers, pre-redisplay-function and whatnot, all of which will gladly overwrite the match-data. Stefan