From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Irritation about re-search-backward
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 08:32:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ded952a5-ddb5-5ce9-2842-c570282d94fc@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po1lf4ch.fsf@web.de>
On 24.05.2018 17:41, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> with "|" marking point and the following buffer
>>
>> #v+
>> aaaaaaaaaaaa|
>> #v-
>>
>>
>> M-: (re-search-backward "a*")
>>
>> does not change point.
>>
>> Shouldn't point have been moved to the beginning of the line?
>
> Good question - but it's the intended behavior. Try
>
Wouldn't say "intended", just "as is".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 13:42 Irritation about re-search-backward Marco Wahl
2018-05-24 15:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-24 20:25 ` Marco Wahl
2018-05-24 21:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 6:32 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.418.1527195625.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-25 9:23 ` Ralf Fassel
2018-05-25 13:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
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