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: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:42:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4301284E.50205@student.lu.se> References: <42FE216D.6070709@student.lu.se> <42FE50AC.9030707@student.lu.se> <42FFB3D1.6050104@student.lu.se> <42FFC83E.7060903@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 1124150775 19413 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 00:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 02:06:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4oxI-0003Vi-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:05:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4p0g-0003Eg-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4oy8-0001WS-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4oy6-0001Vh-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4osM-0007XR-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4oqD-000158-OX; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.204.37) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B937170086489C; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:42:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <42FFC83E.7060903@student.lu.se> 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:42091 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42091 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.