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Re: replace-regexp-in-string, using the dyn scoped variable STR
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: replace-regexp-in-string, using the dyn scoped variable STR |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:05:53 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> `str' has the same value as `m'.
>> No, it doesn't: str is "the whole string" whereas m is only the
>> (match-string 0) part of it
> Which is always a prefix of str, and only different from str if the
> match was empty.
Duh, you're right. Not sure what I was smoking when I tried replacing
str with m. So, even more reasons to discourage the use of `str'.
Stefan