Re: Inefficient code in reftex-index.el

[Kim F. Storm]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> Actually the only cases I can vaguely remember using the
>> (/ (length (match-data)) 2) idiom didn't use the whole (match-data).
>> They typically used the idiom in order to know *which* subgroup matched (of
>> course it only works if you craft your regexp carefully).
>
> That would not work.  (length (match-data)) is a property of the
> regexp, not the match.

According to the code, it does work.

Match data only contains markers until the last successful match.

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