From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: regexp-opt-group
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:42:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301201742.h0KHgkj10618@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yoijsmvnvi22.fsf@elendil.dd.chalmers.se
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
>
> > > With this change, does everything work right?
> [...]
>
> > The `strings' list is expected to always be properly sorted.
> > I believe that if the list is indeed sorted, then
> > (nthcdr (length half1) strings) should DTRT (and faster than your loop).
> > OTOH, if the list is not properly sorted, then it's probably a bug
> > somewhere else.
> > Note: I haven't seen the original message from Johan.
>
> It was posted in gnu.emacs.bug.
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.537.1042928665.21513.bug-gnu-emacs%40gnu.org
> (regexp-opt-group '("000" "this string is missing" "foo"
> "0this occurs twice"))
So the bug is in the docstring of regexp-opt-group which should say
that the list should be sorted. And also make it more clear that it's
an internal function.
Why did you use `regexp-opt-group' rather than `regexp-opt' ?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-18 22:21 regexp-opt-group Johan Bockgård
2003-01-20 0:50 ` regexp-opt-group Richard Stallman
2003-01-20 16:54 ` regexp-opt-group Stefan Monnier
2003-01-20 17:37 ` regexp-opt-group Johan Bockgård
2003-01-20 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-01-22 10:00 ` regexp-opt-group Richard Stallman
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