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

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > I am sure it was done to fix a bug, and I can imagine what the bug
>     > looked like.
>
>     Does anybody have actual evidence for that?
>
> You can look at the emacs-devel archives for a few weeks before the
> relevant date if you want to see what the bug was.

What is the relevant date for a function that never has been
different?  It has been introduced in 1992 according to the ChangeLog
files.  There is no record of the behavior ever being changed in the
ChangeLog files, and it certainly has not been changed in that respect
as long as Emacs has been in CVS according to the logs.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum