From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Where did the regexp fail? Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:11:32 +0200 Message-ID: <47F990E4.4070504@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207537924 32153 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 03:12:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 03:12:04 +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 Apr 07 05:12:37 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jihmc-00063D-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:12:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jihlz-0000vc-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jihlk-0000vI-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jihlh-0000ut-T2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jihlh-0000uq-Nx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jihlh-0006sG-9D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:61423 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jihlf-000112-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:11:36 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080406-0, 2008-04-06), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Jihlf-000112-97. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Jihlf-000112-97 ce66c9fe1515ceba4375dd357fb400c9 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:53119 Archived-At: Is there any easy way to see where a regexp failed? Parts of it may have matched and sometimes you may want to see how much that matched. Or, more precisely: where it finally failed.