From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 14:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20210518120238.GD11623@tuxteam.de> References: <87cztpx8oz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zgwsx5r3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <20210518110743.GC11623@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="g7w8+K/95kPelPD2" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24306"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 14:09:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1liyX9-00067x-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 14:09:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37160 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1liyX8-0008E5-JL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 08:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1liyQv-0001od-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 08:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:60259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1liyQr-0007ue-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 08:02:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=YJNpWTYYTzPz7Ln1S29XMUXnScQ7ZGeY02YHNOEXdpw=; b=JylT4vo+YepIVX3OxrXSQ5XrR8kNkQhNOkbpaBFof2gk1pxovQFe0BngesnZN820gO/ZErzgpOidJlj3q/jwvd/8EgB7CrRVCSqTxrn/MND0/xLxA1aTK6T10Hvp+8QmbkfyrdQX99+4IRggWs6UTBJXdaHH2k0P5gx6mFqc6KGkWU6JMQlPhPTVzc6o2M2cMdKLJ+2V0Zq5NT0JLPxs/BfA1yQuTwhZZCbB82H32PiFGNL4C8RKYld7/gF6sImwQ4vRj1YxB11gOR6CQxPEdmjkFjrFAMei2cBde6jb4YaBD5ZERlWlOQOPJVtnNLtwFmRiXM7ESYJ9OYB7eVWwSA==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1liyQo-0006hD-UJ; Tue, 18 May 2021 14:02:38 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=5.199.139.25; envelope-from=tomas@tuxteam.de; helo=mail.tuxteam.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129871 Archived-At: --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 01:26:12PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: [...] > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > How is it that the following returns nil? > > > > > > (setq sa (string-match "[^[:blank:]]" " ")) > > > > Because you stated to match any non-blank character and there > > are only blank characters to match. >=20 > The docstring for string-match is >=20 > "Return index of start of first match for REGEXP in STRING, or nil." >=20 > I find the description different from what string-match actually returns. ? Cheers - t --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAmCjrN4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ0sQCeKkDd3h9SkaTSVPdr8CXkF/GC j9YAn24ZP09dRY7ydiBuI5mneCtYecfQ =hQkL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2--