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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 24801@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24801: 25.1; Reverse regexp search highlighting
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:51:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <152b38c0-5aff-4c96-b976-8df0cbb3199a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zilqr8d1.fsf@users.sourceforge.net>

> Isn't it?  The match of aa.* "whose beginning is as close as
> possible" when point is at the of a line of a's, is "aa".  So it seems
> expected that searching backwards would match pairs of a's.

You are right.

> Can you describe exactly how the behaviour is different in Emacs 22?

I was mistaken.  The same search hits are found in 22 (and before)
as now.  Somehow I thought I was seeing something different when
I tried 22 and 20 earlier today.

> Actually, this report looks similar to 9681, although I see no
> claims there that it worked in version 22.

Yes, this is the same.  I will close this bug.

Funny that I never noticed this before.  I guess that in practice
it doesn't bite that often.  It is multiple matches in the same
line that makes this really stand out as weird behavior.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26 16:24 bug#24801: 25.1; Reverse regexp search highlighting Drew Adams
2016-10-26 22:42 ` npostavs
2016-10-26 23:23   ` Drew Adams
2016-10-26 23:36     ` npostavs
2016-10-27  1:51       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-10-27  2:33   ` Eli Zaretskii

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