From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: 9681@debbugs.gnu.org, stepnem@gmail.com
Subject: bug#9681: Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:56:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvty7g18vb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tl7vcrwuvwx.fsf@m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:03:26 +0900")
>> It's not the ideal behavior, admittedly. It's even more obvious in
>> `looking-back'. But fixing it would require the implementation of
>> a backward regexp matcher.
> FYI, in Mule (the version before integrating into Emacs), we
> implemented such a feature by doing these:
I actually think it would be nice to have such a thing, but I also think
it'd be more important to have a non-backtracking regexp matcher.
> multilingual feature. And actually, that feature had been
> used very rarely.
Indeed, it's not often needed, but those few cases can be significant.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 9:13 bug#9681: Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character) Štěpán Němec
2011-10-06 12:57 ` 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 [this message]
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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