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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:28:39 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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




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