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

[Richard Stallman]

    > 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.)