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: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182083332 21923 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 12:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, miles@gnu.org, miles.bader@necel.com To: "Herbert Euler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 14:28:50 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 1Hzts9-0007mu-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:28:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzts9-0008Rk-6S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzts5-0008RC-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzts3-0008PZ-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzts2-0008PO-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts40.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.97] helo=tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzts0-0007ja-UA; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.143.156]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070617122839.YZKJ1542.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 358D0813E; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Herbert Euler's message of "Sat\, 16 Jun 2007 11\:50\:56 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:73143 Archived-At: > functions. So with this model thinking about preserving match-data is > extravagant, since after each call to almost any function, the > match-data is possibly changed. It's not extravagant, it just forces you to only think about it where it actually matters (i.e. where you need to call a non-trivial function before using some match-data) rather than "where it may conceivably matter". > this problem, and just as Stefan said, this is a non-problem. Can't argue with this ;-) Stefan