From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 24801@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24801: 25.1; Reverse regexp search highlighting
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:36:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zilqr8d1.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5537d36d-a365-4a3f-97a3-78c32e86e7ea@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:23:26 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> `(elisp) Regexp Search', under `re-search-backward' says:...
>
[...]
> 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.
[...]
>
> I don't think that description is germain to this bug report, except
> insofar as what it describes is _not_ the behavior reported.
>
Isn't it? The match of aa.* "whose beginning is as close as possible"
when point is at the of a line of a's, is "aa". So it seems expected
that searching backwards would match pairs of a's.
> This really looks like a bug to me. But regexp search is so basic
> to Emacs, and this has been like this since Emacs 23, so I can only
> guess that the change in behavior must have been intentional. But
> if so, why? What's the advantage/point of such behavior?
Can you describe exactly how the behaviour is different in Emacs 22?
>
> In Emacs 23.4, `C-h n', then `C-s search', shows that there were a
> zillion changes in Isearch behavior. But this one is not mentioned
> at all.
>
> I have to guess (so far) that this is a bug that was introduced when
> implementing one or more of those zillion documented changes. But
> if so, why has no one reported it before?
Actually, this report looks similar to 9681, although I see no claims
there that it worked in version 22.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-26 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-26 16:24 bug#24801: 25.1; Reverse regexp search highlighting Drew Adams
2016-10-26 22:42 ` npostavs
2016-10-26 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-26 23:36 ` npostavs [this message]
2016-10-27 1:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-27 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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