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bug#33414: 27.0.50; inhibit-changing-match-data can be t in syntax-prope
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#33414: 27.0.50; inhibit-changing-match-data can be t in syntax-propertize functions, breaking backtrace and looking-at |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 11:45:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> FWIW, I don't share the above view. We bind variables to affect
> behavior of functions all over the place, and that is perfectly okay,
> IMO.
This one leads to really hard to debug problems, though.
>> -@defun looking-at regexp
>> +@defun looking-at regexp &optional inhibit-save
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> A typo?
Yup. I changed the name of these parameters five times while writing
the patch.
>> +(make-obsolete-variable 'inhibit-changing-match-data nil "28.1")
>
> Really? why obsolete it?
Because it's not used (and shouldn't be used). `save-match-data' is the
proper way to achieve this in normal code.
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