David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That is not the same: the above will set beg and end to markers,
How "clever" ... I would NEVER have guessed that.
> whereas match-beginning/match-end happen to be integers. However, the
> above will also create markers that are unused, so it would be saner
> to call (match-data) only once _if_ indeed markers are what is
> required.
>
> Unused markers slow done editing operations afterwards. So even if
> markers _are_ what is wanted for some reason, they should be
> explicitly unseated with set-marker once they are no longer needed.
Which brings me to the suggestion that we add an optional arg to
set-match-data like this:
(set-match-data list &optional destroy-markers)
and change save-match-data to use it
(defmacro save-match-data (&rest body)
"Execute the BODY forms, restoring the global value of the match data.
The value returned is the value of the last form in BODY."
;; It is better not to use backquote here,
;; because that makes a bootstrapping problem
;; if you need to recompile all the Lisp files using interpreted code.
(declare (indent 0) (debug t))
(list 'let
'((save-match-data-internal (match-data)))
(list 'unwind-protect
(cons 'progn body)
'(set-match-data save-match-data-internal t))))
--
Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk
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