From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 04:47:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k04r2r43.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Y1OQBhMUdRfzrLnX@tuxteam.de
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> ‘(zero-or-more RX...)’
> ‘(0+ RX...)’
> Match the RXs zero or more times. Greedy by default.
> Corresponding string regexp: ‘A*’ (greedy), ‘A*?’ (non-greedy)
>
> ...what is this `A' the text is referring to? Your experiments suggest
> that it is the sequence of the `RX...' in the syntax shorthand (i.e.
> (seq RX...), but the docs just leave it open :)
I see it like you.
I opened Bug#58727 (29.0.50; rx doc: Semantics of RX...) for this
problem.
Thanks,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-23 2:47 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 [this message]
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
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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