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

[Andreas Schwab]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> Bob Rogers <address@hidden> writes:
>>> The only possible use for a "string-match" that doesn't set the match
>>> data is the boolean return value, right?  So how about "string-match-p"?
>>
>> Er, no.  string-match returns the index of the match (or nil for no match),
>> which is actually quite useful.
>
> Since it returns the value of (match-beginning 0), how about the name
> `string-match-0'?  It is short, and zero has additional mnemonic that
> no data is set by this function.

How about string-match-no-record?

Andreas.

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