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From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Irritation about re-search-backward
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:42:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84muwpw4oo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

with "|" marking point and the following buffer

#v+
aaaaaaaaaaaa|
#v-

M-: (re-search-backward "a*")

does not change point.

Shouldn't point have been moved to the beginning of the line?

BTW

#v+
|aaaaaaaaaaaa
#v-

M-: (re-search-forward "a*")

moves point to the end of the line.


Any hint would be nice, thanks,
                               Marco






             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-24 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 13:42 Marco Wahl [this message]
2018-05-24 15:41 ` Irritation about re-search-backward 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
2018-05-25 13:03       ` Michael Heerdegen

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