Subject: bug#33414: 27.0.50; inhibit-changing-match-data can be t in syntax-propertize functions, breaking backtrace and looking-at

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 20:49:47 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> It's a variable we had since Emacs 23.  The proposed replacements are
> only useful if your Lisp program actually calls the APIs you propose
> to extend, but it won't do if you call higher-level APIs.

That's true, but the variable was only used a single place (in addition
to in looking-at-p and string-match-p) so it seems unlikely that anybody
is going to miss it.

So I've made it obsolete in Emacs 29.  We'll see whether anybody complains.

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