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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
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Subject: Re: mh-inc-folder-hook
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Date: 16 May 89 13:53:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)

In article <TALE.89May15161530@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu>, tale@pawl (David C Lawrence) writes:
>A couple people have said that protecting the match-data like that was
>a good idea so I have this little function now:
>
>(defun save-match-data (&rest forms)
...

And the suggestion I recently posted to beep when "Mail" appears, in
the time.el function that updates the mode-line, needs this function
to avoid clobbering match-data.  Talk about timing.  Thanks to
Wolfgang Rupprecht for pointing this out.
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