From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why does this happen in regexp isearch? Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:29:32 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278153050 21259 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2010 10:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:30:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 03 12:30:48 2010 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 1OUzzc-0008Gu-Ql for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:30:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUzzR-0001t1-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44442 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUzz3-0001q0-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUzz1-0008Ov-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:56655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUzz1-0008On-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: by wwi14 with SMTP id 14so3624354wwi.30 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:30:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=VFnwUglcYs26a98CfhDNFXE3ZhW+zMuumSn+PiFRmxc=; b=PuYDhhS1T3G37VqtMtUqh+doPc7UBVUY3WhhXeREg19nd2sqXo8vU2ghsPK/0u58y4 hNE0hFYDT1gY5Q1fxdqEZZ2kB6GJY/z+MeqTFN9WLtfqvmRHl+mNOvXBGpGQJG7zj0Bt hrnlBMrDW390zhPcUGpV9VzXGkefrP15r4Sac= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=BnDZZG9ChIU5K/oRoivL35MVyADjflV+LLdKm1e4rh5FUotWvNcllUNkk2+oS1HmQv S56PIcxqf5eAOqWLZsqUxHgrZkWh+8idvFw+iHt11RsK60FI5ePOVNvRSjNPMK/ckuju YR0EtZkEdStzxeBlZmO2XiedmCh81kjL+1zE4= Original-Received: by 10.227.155.204 with SMTP id t12mr142039wbw.185.1278153002239; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.184.196 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:29:32 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:74057 Archived-At: I open cus-edit.el.gz in Emacs and do a regexp isearch for: ^ ;; (Beginning of line, then two spaces, then two semicolons.) For some reason that I don't understand, it seems to match "beginning of line, any number of spaces OR tabs, then two semicolons". When I search for: ^ \{2\};; ...it finds what I'm looking for. Why is this? -- Deniz Dogan