From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info-search-whitespace
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:09:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5actbmbff.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CVtoC-0006mg-9a@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:39:24 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
I have here from the past discussion:
> Info-search-whitespace to "unibyte:\\(?:\\s-+\\)*t" and on the line
This appears to me to be perfectly equivalent to
"unibyte:\\s-*t"
Where is my mistake?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-21 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-14 19:02 Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables' Reiner Steib
2004-11-14 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-14 23:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-14 23:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-14 23:55 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-15 0:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-15 4:53 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-15 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-16 16:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-18 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-18 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-18 17:07 ` Simon Krahnke
2004-11-18 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-19 1:23 ` Info-search-whitespace (Was: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables') Juri Linkov
2004-11-19 5:06 ` Info-search-whitespace Stefan Monnier
2004-11-19 17:48 ` Info-search-whitespace Juri Linkov
2004-11-19 20:04 ` Info-search-whitespace Richard Stallman
2004-11-19 20:41 ` Info-search-whitespace David Kastrup
2004-11-21 15:39 ` Info-search-whitespace Richard Stallman
2004-11-21 16:09 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-11-22 0:18 ` Info-search-whitespace Stefan Monnier
2004-11-23 16:30 ` Info-search-whitespace Richard Stallman
2004-11-19 7:15 ` Info-search-whitespace (Was: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables') Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-19 2:25 ` Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables' Richard Stallman
2004-11-29 19:04 ` Reiner Steib
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