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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 54733@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54733: Match again in perform-replace
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:25:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bkuiotxq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r13h6syo.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed,  22 Jun 2022 10:36:39 +0300")

>>>> +				(replace-search search-string limit
>>>> +						regexp-flag delimited-flag
>>>> +						case-fold-search backward))
>>>
>>> I don't know this code too well, but perhaps SEARCH_STRING here should be
>>> anchored with something like "\\=" at the beginning?
>>>
>>> Otherwise the search can succeed here even if the next match is not
>>> here. Not sure how important that is, though.
>>
>> I'm afraid that prepending "\\=" might break a complex regexp somehow.
>
> Another variant without modifying the original regexp is still to call
> replace-search, but afterwards check if it stayed at the old position

A third variant is to add a new variable `looking-at-function'
that is like `isearch-search-fun-function', so everyone who needs
to redefine the search function, will also need to redefine
the looking-at function.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-24 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-05 17:16 bug#54733: Match again in perform-replace Juri Linkov
2022-04-05 17:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-29 17:41   ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-03  7:10     ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-20 23:59       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-21 17:55         ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-22  7:36           ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-24 17:25             ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2022-06-30 17:52         ` Juri Linkov

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