From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: line-number-mode at EOB Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:19:41 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <83tw35thxw.fsf@gnu.org> <87tw35cc70.fsf@rosalinde> <83injktb9p.fsf@gnu.org> <87k240xhk6.fsf@rosalinde> <87k236vh7p.fsf_-_@rosalinde> <878tjlc04f.fsf@rosalinde> <83bmohdcid.fsf@gnu.org> <44e6c16a-ee9f-0d02-7535-e38532c6d1b7@cs.ucla.edu> <87efta4z6c.fsf@rosalinde> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500585601 32354 195.159.176.226 (20 Jul 2017 21:20:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:20:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 20 23:19:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1dYIrT-00085A-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:19:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrZ-000529-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrM-00050b-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrH-0001Wb-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:42426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrH-0001WM-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3278916022B; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 2Q4G4jmf_OlV; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606B5160242; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id TqL3OZyOXX22; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 484F616022B; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87efta4z6c.fsf@rosalinde> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216907 Archived-At: On 07/20/2017 01:43 PM, Stephen Berman wrote: >> More important, it's enough of a line so that (replace-regexp "^" "X") inserts >> three "X"s in a 2-line buffer. > Why doesn't this also happen with (replace-regexp "$" "X"), although > both (looking-at "^$") and (looking-at "$") return t at EOB (preceded by > a newline)? Sorry, haven't a clue. That part of Emacs has never made sense to me.