From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8686@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8686: 24.0.50; `re-search-backward' does not respect `search-invisible'
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 07:32:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8DBD557E665A462A9E36E735F9AF446D@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvliy4438t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> >> The same idea can be used with syntax-ppss to skip over
> >> matches that are inside comments/strings.
>
> > Yes, but why not have this built into the search functions
> > themselves, just as is done for isearch?
>
> Because I'd rather that the low-level functions do one thing and one
> thing well.
Sure. Define `re-search-forward' & compagnie in Lisp.
Have them call C functions that each do one simple thing well.
That way, existing code that uses these long-standing functions can benefit from
this feature (or can ignore it) just by binding a variable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 22:09 bug#8686: 24.0.50; `re-search-backward' does not respect `search-invisible' Drew Adams
2011-05-18 0:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-18 0:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-18 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-18 1:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-18 2:18 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-18 9:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-18 12:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-18 13:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-18 14:32 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-28 10:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 13:51 ` Drew Adams
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=8DBD557E665A462A9E36E735F9AF446D@us.oracle.com \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=8686@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).