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Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename on w32 does not preserve match-data?
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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:07:04 -0500
> Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>     No, I think instead that code that calls convert-standard-filename shouldn't
>     expect it to preserve the match-data.
> 
> It seems cleaner to me for a general subroutine, that does a job not
> specifically related to searching or matching, to preserve the match
> data, rather than making all its callers take care.

Done.