From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp does not work as documented
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijprrzecxk.fsf@remote5.student.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200805060330.45156.bruno@clisp.org
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> The regular expression (as an Emacs string)
> "^msgstr\\(\\[[0-9]\\]\\)?.*\n\\(\".*\n\\)*"
> is supposed to search for a line starting with "msgstr" and an optional
> digit inside brackets, followed by as many lines starting with a double-quote
> as possible. The Emacs documentation says:
>
> "The matcher processes a `*' construct by matching, immediately, as
> many repetitions as can be found."
>
> This is apparently not the case with the above regexp.
This is a font lock problem.
(info "(elisp) Multiline Font Lock")
--
Johan Bockgård
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 1:30 regexp does not work as documented Bruno Haible
2008-05-06 14:15 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2015-12-29 17:48 ` bug#192: " Bruno Haible
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