From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Irritation about re-search-backward Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:03:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87zi0ndgzq.fsf@web.de> References: <84muwpw4oo.fsf@gmail.com> <87po1lf4ch.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527253349 18691 195.159.176.226 (25 May 2018 13:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 13:02:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ralf Fassel Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 15:02:25 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fMCMN-0004dK-Uy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 15:02:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43907 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMCOT-0006uj-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 09:04:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMCNz-0006uS-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 09:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMCNw-00051P-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 09:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:43263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMCNw-00050v-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 09:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([188.110.196.170]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LbIiI-1g2i8016Ak-00l0UW; Fri, 25 May 2018 15:03:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Ralf Fassel's message of "Fri, 25 May 2018 11:23:59 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:2633x2X/AB+W0ykHSPPJundxngvGgrq8To2YNs7bzt7oR7Xz5cl AwfpQhTHkV/YzpXImIuWISpP035p+iAY53vGmIAMpVxIxf5kgnjXsudDNnWdtlgiOQphkaR EYDHas5gYRwMOojp2lmXDVFBYEUYCU7THgaXvenmWTI/tGFjUaSIJ0fl2Dr0sXNXKVw98C3 fK1GjW8HISDl0nLzed4/A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:5BvJ3E7Czk4=:WE+ocovZsHWDfFjlNtysxH OEAnNgNri4fjuBC88U8/Nc53AzYKoQcHl5gzxEPV84n3suDFdReMX90Xn80AC1Ze+QwLt896T UXFfEa+GJPMEGVvX1yPADaSYP/mFerWExUMCHY7XX7OT7IU5Y3JSj8joscQnhn+Pl2Dc30SMA aJp8lRkgd2+uqDDzGHDexgo6A9jTzs/3YZtncnUR/xS6fJ5fPM5qpFtKGKfla+lKA10/Mijcf bo+15F+ipvpn4HAcqmLaFMx/1OUsNmeXBEzUZoGvioCfGm4JXUCJyMhQTSuyMTQ9qiqV4MXDc dIFUgiq1TKPfm89GdW3VkPDnW8aRKsThG4G5AyOsmhxS6P4TODo7xVHqxVVKHuGm16LJKmQdz mshhUWIv92dzq8gHRMyyjD1ILLQNETfUOXx7Pfhc4cLF2ev/qeGaDdGFhu8gTCHLnlBact4HB l1qt+ooKU2YEkjN1ZDoJxBeJKISqtKJE3CfzdmTqjjtE+WWNInQVutumtqyasT17oWjbJkkh+ otO/OYtQjDw4zOfHTTXt5GL1Q6Ym46U5UDaoBGLYCJAv9Aym4LT+ICf/APsTTVV5WGY1RW7r6 APG7Rvk29K+2x8xA/wrVyRDCBEVS3RGNYkG1ACWcwm9r5+mdoIx1MslRXyh6s2cNdmVt0j2ub 1mSYCsGVjn4XmygC9vpW7FtVJewHge8dYwApFqdo4ji0rPlCQXIrHpxBaTElVr6CJLZHC6CxC F4q7JTgEHxOibkyListe2t8WRdsFkDkWtit+ym/UWuaSXl79Er9GTTzpKh7KiwtX64pGrdI4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116855 Archived-At: Ralf Fassel writes: > * Marco Wahl > | 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.