* "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that."
@ 2011-01-29 23:32 Rolf Ade
2011-01-30 1:37 ` Rolf Ade
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From: Rolf Ade @ 2011-01-29 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi,
the elisp manual 2.9, I look at, has under the index entry
re-search-backward the notice, that this function is not a "simple
mirror" of re-search-forward, because, well, "it's not worth the
trouble of implementing that".
But I need "the match whose end is as close as possible" (what a true
mirror of re-search-forward would do).
How do I get this: back from point the position of the end of the
match of a regular expression?
rolf
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* Re: "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that."
2011-01-29 23:32 "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that." Rolf Ade
@ 2011-01-30 1:37 ` Rolf Ade
2011-01-31 16:49 ` Dan Davison
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From: Rolf Ade @ 2011-01-30 1:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I wrote:
> How do I get this: back from point the position of the end of the
> match of a regular expression?
Reading further, the combination of re-search-backward and looking-at
seems to provide a solution.
rolf
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* Re: "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that."
2011-01-30 1:37 ` Rolf Ade
@ 2011-01-31 16:49 ` Dan Davison
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From: Dan Davison @ 2011-01-31 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Rolf Ade <rolf@pointsman.de> writes:
> I wrote:
>> How do I get this: back from point the position of the end of the
>> match of a regular expression?
Hi Rolf,
I think you want match-end.
Dan
>
> Reading further, the combination of re-search-backward and looking-at
> seems to provide a solution.
>
> rolf
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