Re: Bug in looking-at?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Jason Rumney wrote:
>
>>> 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.

To my surprise I can not reproduce this now. I did several tests before 
with emacs -Q and it work the way I described all the times. Richard 
can't see it, Jason don't see the problem, I could see it but not now. 
It is beginning to look like a possibly intermittent hardware memory 
problem to me. But I am not sure yet, those are hard to track down. So - 
just drop it for now at least. I will come back if I come to another 
conclusion than the one above.