From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 04:58:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-209E03.04585312022006@comcast.dca.giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m27j825iw0.fsf@gmail.com
In article <m27j825iw0.fsf@gmail.com>,
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > Because the regular expression . matches any character except newline,
> > while [^;] matches any character except ';'. So newline matches [^;].
>
> So what happens is that the match begin at the empty line then and
> then "wraps around" to the next row? How can I avoid it?
Use [^;<newline>] in the regular expression, where <newline> is entered
with C-q C-j.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-12 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 1:43 Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp? Mathias Dahl
2006-02-11 2:04 ` Barry Margolin
2006-02-11 9:45 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-12 9:58 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2006-02-12 14:58 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-12 21:19 ` Barry Margolin
2006-02-11 11:48 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-02-11 19:00 ` Mattis
2006-02-11 19:33 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.17.1139690074.2858.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-02-11 21:43 ` Mathias Dahl
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