From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Irritation about re-search-backward
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:03:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi0ndgzq.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yga1se03x74.fsf@akutech.de> (Ralf Fassel's message of "Fri, 25 May 2018 11:23:59 +0200")
Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> writes:
> * Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
> | BTW to get the "greedy" match backwards I use now a further element in
> | the search pattern like (re-search-backward "^a*").
>
> Note that this matches each and every line, even those not starting
> with 'a'.
Indeed. Or the OP wants `looking-back' instead of `re-search-backward'.
Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 13:42 Irritation about re-search-backward Marco Wahl
2018-05-24 15:41 ` 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 [this message]
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