From: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Irritation about re-search-backward
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 11:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yga1se03x74.fsf@akutech.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.418.1527195625.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
* Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
| BTW to get the "greedy" match backwards I use now a further element in
| the search pattern like (re-search-backward "^a*").
Note that this matches each and every line, even those not starting with 'a'.
HTH
R'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 13:42 Irritation about re-search-backward Marco Wahl
2018-05-24 15:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 20:25 ` Marco Wahl
2018-05-24 21:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 6:32 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.418.1527195625.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-25 9:23 ` Ralf Fassel [this message]
2018-05-25 13:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
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