From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info-search-whitespace Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:18:34 -0500 Message-ID: <87fz32g2ke.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <878y942l8h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <20041114232600.GA12968@fencepost> <20041118170700.GG5243@xts.gnuu.de> <87fz36h90m.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <873bz6l99n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101082758 12300 80.91.229.6 (22 Nov 2004 00:19:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 22 01:19:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CW1vE-0001A8-00 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CW24G-000893-9q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:28:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CW23z-00088V-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:28:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CW23y-00088I-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CW23x-00088E-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CW1uc-00040M-Vf; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.119.192]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041122001834.BPOP2034.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:18:34 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 258D8D73A2; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:18:34 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:39:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30220 > He said removed, not replaced by an explicit group. The shy group > encloses a single item and thus is completely redundant. > Without the shy group, it would give wrong results when followed by ?. > The + and the ? would combine to give the wrong meaning. Then regex.c should maybe try and recognize \(?:f+\)* and optimize it like it optimizes f+*. Stefan