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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regular expression in find-tag-regexp
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:53:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aa9med2a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOm4EMt-22X+7pO1V3hVvjwx3oE2a3JfRszYq=+29t8=2XXoNA@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:54:00 -0500
> From: Shiyuan <gshy2014@gmail.com>
> 
>      I notice that the same regular expression will give different matching
> result in find-tag-regexp (C-M-.) and in isearch-forward-regexp (C-M-S). \

Where did you use C-M-S?  Was it in the buffer that visits the TAGS
table, or was it in the buffer where you have the source file?
find-tag-regexp does the former.  It uses re-search-forward, btw, not
isearch-forward-regexp.

> If I use the Mat.*GetArray.* to search, find-tag-regexp will only match
> MatGetArray_SeqAIJ but isearch-forward-regexp will match all except the
> lower case matgetarray(). If I use the MatGetArray, find-tag-regexp will
> match all of them including the matgetarray()? Anyone can explain why it is
> so? If I want find-tag-regexp to find all of them( with or without the
> matgetarray()), what regexp should I use? Thank you.

It would help if you show what's in your TAGS file for these
functions.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29 22:54 regular expression in find-tag-regexp Shiyuan
2011-09-30  6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-30 22:55 ` Shiyuan
2011-10-01  8:09   ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-01 16:03 Shiyuan
2011-10-01 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-01 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii

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