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Re: Emacs treatment of match-data during change hooks


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Emacs treatment of match-data during change hooks
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 21:44:25 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> I suppose that caveat would pin the bug on one of the third party
> packages I use. However, why couldn't Emacs save off the match-data
> itself and restore it after the after-change-functions? Is there any
> legit situation where a change hook would want to change the
> match-data in effect after the change hook returns?

There are many cases where an after-change-function won't use regular
expressions at all.


        Stefan



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