From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: trivial regexp problem Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:50:41 +0100 Message-ID: <0FF10207-160D-4CD6-B8DB-A19EC694B94F@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358877061 27454 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2013 17:51:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Barry Margolin Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 18:51:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Txi09-0001Kg-Op for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:51:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txhzs-0004QB-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txhzl-0004Ps-GT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txhzk-0002R4-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:62217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txhzk-0002Oy-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.8] ([95.223.148.182]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0Lz2vo-1StWXR1xOy-0146qu; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:50:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:h4snBywObK8PKH314DopC0GbYJUHKn7xWL7nj6m8pDf WqS5xd6xOIZibeEZ0YjmWSNYlY/kjvQF76XR3iIihDA0XbXHsQ eqi3Qm5C6IosyOeksaEAuSFthKe18/0QACoVzHvu6FGVPohamK 3kbqhEGwyvcXd7lc2eBKFY7yCfsMTc4J/TVShnEJIV/YG4uVIj dNY/qNnhfvJLW2mN05wCQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88768 Archived-At: Am 22.01.2013 um 17:44 schrieb Barry Margolin: > Since it's=20 > immediately followed by .*, which matches anything, the regexp will=20 > match whether or not the line begins with whitespace. Yes, it not only matches the beginning of every line, it also matches = the beginning of every empty line=85 -- Greetings Pete My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by = the seashore.