From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: 31584@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:36:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu2gfu5d.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in7cg2qw.fsf@web.de>
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
>>> +Note that searching backwards may give a shorter match than expected,
>>> +because the matching still happens in the forward direction. See Info
>>> +anchor `(elisp) re-search-backward' for details. */)
>
>> Too bad that the anchor is located after the relevant description.
>
> I don't understand what you mean.
>
>> FWIW; I still prefer the original sentence, I find it describes the
>> behavior best, and short (which is good for a docstring). It is also
>> good to have an alternative and more verbose explanation in the manual.
>
> I find the original sentence kind of cryptic, but I'm okay to be
> outvoted on this.
I think Drew's statement that "the pattern is always matched in a
forward direction, even when it matches text that is before point" makes
a lot of sense. That's just a 2¢, though, that's all I've got for this
issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 21:31 bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 21:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-24 21:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 22:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-24 22:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-24 22:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-24 22:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 23:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 0:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 0:31 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 0:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-05-25 1:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 1:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 1:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-25 11:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 0:28 ` Drew Adams
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