Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data

[David Kastrup]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>> How about string-match-no-record?
>>
>> What about string-match-beginning?  Or string-match-save?  Or
>> stealthy-string-match?
>
> I think all of those are misleading.
>
> "string-match-reentrant"?

What use is reentrancy in a routine that does not call Lisp and can't
be called in interrupts?

Anyway, such a function should likely _return_ the corresponding
match-data (rather than setting a global variable to it), and things
like match-beginning should optionally take an argument for this
particular match-data.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum