Re: announcing thaiword.el?

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:02:51 +0900 (JST), Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote:
> The problem is that the innermost function
> re_match_2_internal doesn't know about the original buffer
> or Lisp string.  So, to make PREDICATE-FUN work, we must
> generate a Lisp string each time and that will be extemely
> slow.

Hmmm, I see the following in referenced in various places in regex.c,
and it seems to be set by Emacs callers to the regex functions:

   /* In Emacs, this is the string or buffer in which we
      are matching.  It is used for looking up syntax properties.       */
   Lisp_Object re_match_object;

search.c sets it to nil for the current buffer (and the string in the
case of a string); if word_boundary_p were just passed this object and
the position as extra arguments...?

>  And first of all, is re_match_2_internal a safe place
> to call a Lisp function?

Good question ... :-/

-Miles
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