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bug#65496: 30.0.50; Issue with the regexp used to auto-detect PBM image
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#65496: 30.0.50; Issue with the regexp used to auto-detect PBM image data |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:36:06 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 18:32:22 +0200
> From: David Ponce <da_vid@orange.fr>
>
> I wonder if it is expected that matching a regular expression
> against a string object depends on the syntax-table setup in current
> buffer? Shouldn't (standard-syntax-table) implied when matching a
> regexp against a string object, that is, regardless of any buffer
> context?
Not necessarily, because you wouldn't expect, say, looking-at to
return a different result than (string-match-p (buffer-string)), would
you?
This belongs to the gray areas of Emacs. The same situation exists
with functions like downcase, which use the buffer-local value of
case-table.