From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Finding C style comments using isearch-forward-regexp
Date: 20 Feb 2003 15:35:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lfzqisna8.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84ptpne7wm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de
> - any sequence of [^*] is allowed
> - a * followed by [^/] is allowed
> The above two can be repeated.
> I think that avoids backtracking.
It will avoid matching past the comment-end, but it doesn't prevent the
regexp routines from pushing stuff on the stack in case we need
to backtrack (the routines are not clever enough).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-19 13:40 Finding C style comments using isearch-forward-regexp Timur Aydin
2003-02-19 14:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-19 17:03 ` Timur Aydin
2003-02-19 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-20 7:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-20 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2003-02-20 21:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-20 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-21 14:00 ` Kevin Dziulko
2003-02-19 19:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-19 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
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2003-02-21 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-24 18:48 ` Kevin Dziulko
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