From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: regexp does not work as documented Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:15:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200805060330.45156.bruno@clisp.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210083387 29676 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 14:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 14:16:27 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 16:17:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JtNyP-0005Js-FY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtNxh-0000Mi-I0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 10:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtNxK-00007T-Vk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 10:15:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtNxJ-00006V-P4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 10:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52823 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtNxJ-00006M-K5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 10:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtNxJ-00034S-3W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 10:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JtNxH-0008Az-2i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:15:43 +0000 Original-Received: from remote5.student.chalmers.se ([129.16.29.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:15:43 +0000 Original-Received: from bojohan+news by remote5.student.chalmers.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:15:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: remote5.student.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LuvHxCUR8RXWSVZVWE4eoibA1G0= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17928 Archived-At: Bruno Haible 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