From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bug in elisp... or in elisper??? Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:15:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4D8932A8.9080007@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300839342 12952 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 00:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs List To: gebser@mousecar.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 01:15:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2Bje-0006ah-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:15:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2Bjd-0003SM-FY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43597 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2BjH-0003Qq-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2BjG-0003Sh-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa07-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.192.233]:33219) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2BjG-0003SV-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 22784 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2011 00:15:12 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by p3plsmtpa07-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (173.201.192.233) with ESMTP; 23 Mar 2011 00:15:12 -0000 Original-Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so8079030fxm.0 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.78.201 with SMTP id m9mr2693897fak.20.1300839310212; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.102.68 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:15:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D8932A8.9080007@mousecar.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 173.201.192.233 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80326 Archived-At: On 3/22/11, ken wrote: > Fellow elispers, > > Something seems to be amiss in the search syntax here: > > (setq aname-re-str > "\\(\\(.\\|\n\\)*?\\) \\|\t\\|\n\\)*?\\)>" ) > ... > The problem is that the 5th match-string should be either empty or > whitespace. But it consistently contains the last character of of the > 4th match-string. And these two matches are separated by the literal > character string, "