From: paul@wolfbone.ath.cx (P.L.Hayes)
To: Detlev Zundel <dzu@akk.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [paul@wolfbone.ath.cx: Re: re-builder bug(s)]
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:48:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6ryi4ex.fsf@wolfbone.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fy8e74o9.fsf@magrathea.dnsalias.org> (Detlev Zundel's message of "Fri\, 09 Mar 2007 17\:38\:46 +0100")
Detlev Zundel <dzu@akk.org> writes:
> Ok, attached is a patch that changes the behaviour of re-builder when
> it comes to what it previously considered empty regexps. It now
> counts words, lines and other zero-width regexps.
>
> Although I think the new behaviour is consistent in that it now also
> counts (up to its defined maximum) the numbers of characters in a
> buffer when confronted with an empty regexp (after all
> re-search-forward matches), I don't know if that is what users would
> expect.
>
> What do you think?
That patch works and (as a user) I think either that behaviour or some
message in the modeline other than "*invalid*" would've been
sufficient to preclude my earlier confusion.
Cheers,
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 22:36 [paul@wolfbone.ath.cx: Re: re-builder bug(s)] Richard Stallman
2007-03-09 16:38 ` Detlev Zundel
2007-03-09 19:48 ` P.L.Hayes [this message]
2007-03-10 15:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-12 13:03 ` Detlev Zundel
2007-03-13 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-13 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-14 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-18 14:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-09 16:55 ` Oliver Scholz
2007-03-10 15:50 ` Richard Stallman
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