From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_R=c3=b6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Irritation about re-search-backward Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 08:32:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <84muwpw4oo.fsf@gmail.com> <87po1lf4ch.fsf@web.de> 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 1527229732 2244 195.159.176.226 (25 May 2018 06:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 06:28:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 08:28:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1fM6DT-0000Nm-B4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 08:28:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM6Fa-0007dD-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 02:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM6FB-0007cw-0q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 02:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM6F7-0000eW-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 02:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.135]:42939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM6F7-0000dp-7o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 02:30:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.35] ([178.8.45.6]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue004 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LzFLh-1gPjXb3gkz-014WRV for ; Fri, 25 May 2018 08:30:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87po1lf4ch.fsf@web.de> Content-Language: en-US X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:6bkLK36p31JoV+95IXsMSh4R50mIEuRpzuY3Ilxe+Z0vOF7pEYR eP1U+co9krf4tz55trCKRmMi+1Cdbuj1WjbDUxzOK41HFGYdLLHlZc0y+6nKfc9xWecK8fP a3Fi3fX5V9EGywmP4rHmBv9/jX+cX9jBmN7b14NLt9zELWI4lW07FU3qkI6Hupt1QzUCOgh 3A+DD3OqwYAsQKMqyfwQg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:DM6I6w2gv0s=:ydwRM8+kPq3eXcbnoxa3Es D6VCwIOR1JCk7aEKK1tp+RBXU4tjKtw8zp8ZKMo6TZdx6pg33huZ+Cygt+5UskF6fXDkzYKnc B3mNE7QZYoI4mNf7kvb785fwBUVvKns1GrOYXjCp9NjWkcRyg32lH0UZtTJhw+JTJRmVEr5LE 4/M2EVyh7ZYb878TubKaqogwnvbfMYOxrEM1LNWXHScxNj1YOqVyO8qO9HK32JibPoOVbtkin 8TboAGmpGp4bKtqbp5sbiGaMzaPTzH6lUcaShIinX1vDweZGgx67dscKIqoPiucD55iRxwAmJ aoqV/pseOC1fRwrlP6vYJ0cIPZPwoY+p5O+eNwWInjcOXqFeFfbkd2ePoEzbArWXocwLexCFz vf/0QRbKw7+wQKqoX/eH8P5VE4w/K8ucksEDxPdOcs7jxyedP5Esb7N18peIIt+5sWl89cf0w dSyNhPwMWx+UtowyUenCeZgDXJ448SJsGOjVPolPtVvt53WU9OuazUd6qf8OM0avpzbucQs25 ++VFaE4r7wqfwA9kBPIPlC0ncx19QWoz5Tlq0iHRBNKSbX5EKC23UEImS++7hVB87rjXaX+81 rD+I6xYZmEt1nSwFZ9K7LAoIUzjcvHKWHl/CwjFa6EAYUYzj0xCELlGV3vH0kJxQrZ3Lls2ja MAEB9Ls72YgMWTCq2D0RiyX1xPO5yEC1YWQpa4b/vK05y7ICNlMDxhp8erYDrzRa0AKBsUVeD le7blEaKy/pSdAh0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.135 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116853 Archived-At: On 24.05.2018 17:41, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Marco Wahl 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".