From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:41:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edv045ee.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Y1OrFauiY0QNg5W4@tuxteam.de
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> > thanks for answers so far. We may want to improve that aspect in the
> > docstring of `rx' - but note that the more important question was about
> > why "\\`\\(?:ab\\)*\\'" matches "a" - that looks like a bug to me.
>
> At least an inconsistency. Since the docs don't say what a repeat
> operator with more (or less?) than one argument is supposed to mean...
For the stringish regexp case there is only one argument IMO for the *
postfix operator, and that is the regexp "\\(?:ab\\)" in this case.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-22 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-22 4:24 Shy groups and * ...eh, what? Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-22 6:11 ` Heime
2022-10-22 6:39 ` tomas
2022-10-23 2:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-24 4:45 ` tomas
2022-10-24 21:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 3:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-25 3:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 4:43 ` tomas
2022-10-22 6:49 ` Heime
2022-10-22 7:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-22 8:34 ` tomas
2022-10-22 8:41 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-10-22 11:12 ` Bruno Barbier
2022-10-23 2:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-24 4:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-22 19:54 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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