Re: Can't clear stale match data after failed match

Thank you for your prompt, complete reply! bjacob> http://ftp.us.xemacs.org/ftp/pub/xemacs/packages/ispell-1.24-pkg.tar.gz OK, I'll see about updating ispell. bjacob> No. That sounds like a good technique. However, I think bjacob> the technique in ispell.el 3.6 is even more bjacob> straightforward and understandable. Agreed, for this case. However, if you had a "polymorphic" situation, I think something like (cond ((match-beginning 3) ...) ; handle 3-match case ((match-beginning 2) ...) ; handle 2-match case ((match-beginning 1) ...) ; handle 1-match case is elegant, and I would use the (store-match-data nil) case there. bjacob> You mentioned that you agreed that the old behavior of bjacob> xemacs is inconsistent with the documentation. Since you bjacob> are planning to use the old behavior, I recommend changing bjacob> the documentation to better describe that behavior. Maybe bjacob> the documentation should mention the techniques of bjacob> store-match-data Already in CVS ;-) and a proposal to GNU to synch is on emacs-devel. bjacob> and ispell.el 3.6. That's a good idea, but not as easy to write. Later.... :-) bjacob> Let me know if you would like me to submit my fixes to you bjacob> so you can add them to the xemacs official web site. Yes, please do. Send them to xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org, and send a formatted ChangeLog so you'll get proper credit. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.