From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug in looking-at? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:39:58 +0200 Message-ID: <42FFC83E.7060903@student.lu.se> References: <42FE216D.6070709@student.lu.se> <42FE50AC.9030707@student.lu.se> <42FFB3D1.6050104@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124060464 8828 80.91.229.2 (14 Aug 2005 23:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 01:00:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4RTO-0006C2-4z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:00:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4RWi-0006J6-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4RWI-0006Hf-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4RRn-0005aB-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4RRl-0005Pd-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4ROH-0001HL-0u; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.192) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD20077399B; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:40:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42051 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42051 Jason Rumney wrote: >Lennart Borgman writes: > > > >>>>2. Then copy the last (looking-at ...), place point as before and >>>>run with M-S-:. >>>> It should fail to match again. >>>> >>>> > >Should it fail? If so, then what is the bug? > > > >>Richard has replied that he does not see this problem on his system >>(GNU/Linux I suppose). >> >> > >What is the problem? Everything that you said SHOULD happen does, on >both GNU/Linux and W32. So I don't think I see it either. > > Hm. Yes, I can see now I misunderstood the [:space:] character class. It was not exactly what I thought. I believed \r and \n belonged to this character class (though I understand it can not). This explains why the pattern did not match. However it does not explain why it matched later in point 3. I am still so surprised by this that I had to test it once again to be sure.