From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: `looking-back' strange warning
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 15:17:21 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9ec267a-f2f7-4bbf-a1f2-3489a72e1431@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bncgii2q.fsf@gnu.org>
> > You are welcome to contribute to that (short) bug thread,
> > or to otherwise try to get such a function added to Emacs.
>
> I think that function is not really a viable drop-in replacement for
> typical `looking-back' calls. The latter is most frequently used to
> decide "am I behind some word or sequence of words, and I don't care
> about whitespace?".
I did not suggest that it should be a "drop-in replacement for
typical `looking-back' calls."
The intention is to have such a function for the quite common,
but special, use case of checking for a literal sequence of
chars just before point. That is one thing that `looking-back'
is sometimes (too often, mistakenly) used for.
IOW, it's not a case of either-or. There is a use for
`looking-back' other than the `chars-before' use case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-03 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 8:25 `looking-back' strange warning Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 6:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-01 6:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-01 6:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-01 7:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 8:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-01 8:46 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 9:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-02 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-02 15:21 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-01 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-01 17:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-01 18:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 18:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-01 19:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 20:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-02 0:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-02 1:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-02 5:13 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 20:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-02 21:35 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-03 6:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-03 6:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-03 15:20 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-03 15:17 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-10-02 1:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-02 5:12 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 6:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 6:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-02 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-02 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2015-10-02 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-03 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.176.1443721449.16064.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-01 18:50 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <<barmar-D40496.14502501102015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-10-01 23:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 0:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-02 5:10 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-02 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-02 15:24 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-02 19:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-01 12:35 ` Artur Malabarba
[not found] <<560B9C7F.2060301@easy-emacs.de>
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