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

[Herbert Euler]

>     > 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.

Regards,
Guanpeng Xu

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