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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	192@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, koppel@ece.lsu.edu,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp does not work as documented
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:04:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805102204.56980.bruno@clisp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfxsvbgg5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >   - I originally observed the bug in po-mode (part of GNU gettext), in
> >     a function po-find-span-of-entry which essentially only calls
> >     re-search-backward and re-search-forward.
> 
> Please try and reproduce the problem there and send us a recipe.

After deeper investigation, the bug in po-mode was not directly related:
I had used a regexp which was not designed for use with re-search-backward.
This bug is closed now. <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23177>

Thank you Stefan for bringing me on the right track.

Bruno





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-10 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06  4:20 regexp does not work as documented Chong Yidong
2008-05-06 11:35 ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-06 12:12   ` martin rudalics
2008-05-10 19:18     ` David Koppelman
2008-05-10 20:13       ` David Koppelman
2008-05-11  7:40         ` martin rudalics
2008-05-11 14:27           ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-11 15:36             ` David Koppelman
2008-05-11 18:44               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-11 19:09                 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-12  1:28                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 15:03                     ` David Koppelman
2008-05-12 16:29                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 17:04                         ` David Koppelman
2008-05-11 18:44             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-11 20:03               ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-12  1:43                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12  3:30                   ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-12 13:43                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 15:55                       ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-12 16:18                         ` tomas
2008-05-06 15:35   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 21:29     ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-10 20:04     ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2008-05-06 15:00 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-06 21:35   ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-07  1:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07  1:08     ` Auto-discovery of multi-line font-lock regexps Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07  3:46       ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-07  4:21         ` Stefan Monnier

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