From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rolf Ade Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that." Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:32:09 +0100 Organization: Me, myself and I Message-ID: <87r5bvb81y.fsf@point.pointsman.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296491552 1539 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2011 16:32:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:32:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 17:32:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pjwfr-0003aA-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:32:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pjwfq-0002qC-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:32:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: individual.net FLKPYD77TCNby5Xd6soN9wGpuki7Gh0wQb8OC9NCsIBCAzcY0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:+G8MVOeL7+defoC8yFxhuuQUsXw= sha1:TnFHOZOpOFUW9aVWxNEgMYlYHSg= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184684 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:25:36 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78873 Archived-At: Hi, the elisp manual 2.9, I look at, has under the index entry re-search-backward the notice, that this function is not a "simple mirror" of re-search-forward, because, well, "it's not worth the trouble of implementing that". But I need "the match whose end is as close as possible" (what a true mirror of re-search-forward would do). How do I get this: back from point the position of the end of the match of a regular expression? rolf