* Problems with re-search-forward under Latest CVS
@ 2008-11-03 3:08 Tyler Spivey
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From: Tyler Spivey @ 2008-11-03 3:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Hello. I've found a strange problem with the way regexes are handled. I've read the manual, but am still confused. For example, if we evaluate:
(progn
(setq re1 "\377\371")
(setq re2 "\\(\377\371\\)")
(insert (decode-coding-string "line 1\nline 2\377\371" 'raw-text-unix)))
Doing all of the following with point after the sexp with each command produces
the following results:
M-: (re-search-forward re1) - works as expected, puts point after the two characters at the end of the buffer.
M-: (re-search-forward re2) - search failed. This is what is puzzling me because from what I've read, the \( and \) are just grouping constructs which
should not effect the outcome of the search in this simple case.
M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET M-: (re-search-forward re1) - fails.
M-: (re-search-forward re2) - with multibyte disabled, this now works.
Could someone please explain what is happening here? Running multibyte-string-p on re1 and re2 both say nil, as expected.
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