From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, 31584@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 21:27:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu2gfrsn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0xkee05.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 25 May 2018 03:10:50 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> The anchor is in this paragraph:
>
> Nonincremental search for a regexp is done with the commands
> ‘re-search-forward’ and ‘re-search-backward’. [...]
Ah, no, the anchor (which I added as part of the patch) is in the elisp
manual, not the emacs manual.
<<<<<ANCHOR IS HERE>>>>>>
-- Command: re-search-backward regexp &optional limit noerror count
This function searches backward in the current buffer for a string
of text that is matched by the regular expression REGEXP, leaving
point at the beginning of the first text found.
This function is analogous to `re-search-forward', but they are not
simple mirror images. `re-search-forward' finds the match whose
beginning is as close as possible to the starting point. If
`re-search-backward' were a perfect mirror image, it would find the
match whose end is as close as possible. However, in fact it
finds the match whose beginning is as close as possible (and yet
ends before the starting point). The reason for this is that
matching a regular expression at a given spot always works from
beginning to end, and starts at a specified beginning position.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 21:31 bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 21:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-24 21:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 22:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-24 22:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-24 22:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-24 22:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 23:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 0:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 0:31 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 0:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-25 1:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 1:27 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-05-25 1:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-25 11:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 0:28 ` Drew Adams
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