From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: 9681@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9681: Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character)
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:13:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762k21o09.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Quoting from <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15052>:
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> What am I doing wrong?
Nothing, I think :-). I personally don't use fancy split-
ting, but a deeper look at (at least Gnus 5.13's) code seems
to locate the culprit in Emacs' *backward* regular expres-
sion "non-greedity": Position point at the end of
"bugzilla.gdm", C-u C-r "\w+" - et voilà, only one character
is matched.
============
If this curious inconsistency of `re-search-backward' with
`re-search-forward' is intentional (which I hope it is not), it should
be documented, but I couldn't find anything in the manuals or
docstrings.
--
Štěpán
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 9:13 Štěpán Němec [this message]
2011-10-06 12:57 ` bug#9681: Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character) Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 18:48 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-10-07 13:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-07 13:19 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-10-11 2:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-11 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 19:46 ` Johan Bockgård
2012-03-16 15:49 ` Jack Duthen
2012-03-16 16:29 ` bug#11025: Fwd: " Jack Duthen
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