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


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: find-file-noselect needs save-match-data
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:12:27 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>>     > Yes, but if people get in the habit of using a new function
>>     > whenever they don't actually want to use the match data,
>>     > which I expect is most of the time, that need to think carefully
>>     > will be much less frequent.
>>
>>     I think this is a delusion.
>>
>>We will have to agree to disagree.
>>
>>Would someone please implement string-match-p and looking-at-p?
>>(A variable would be more general, but not as simple to use.
>>Its only advantage over save-match-data would be a small speedup.)
>
> Is there somebody working on it?  If not, I would like to start it.

Do you want to work on a new variable?  Since adding `-p' to only two
match functions doesn't make sense.  And adding `-p' to all functions
makes even less sense.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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