From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that." Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:49:58 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87r5bvb81y.fsf@point.pointsman.de> <87k4hnb29q.fsf@point.pointsman.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296493575 14144 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2011 17:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:06:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 18:06:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjxCc-00074u-JD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:06:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjxCb-0002qo-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:06:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46914 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjwxF-0003ye-1C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjwxD-0002Ds-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjwxD-0002Db-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:50:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjwxA-0005y7-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from 94.196.190.115.threembb.co.uk ([94.196.190.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from dandavison7 by 94.196.190.115.threembb.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:50:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.196.190.115.threembb.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uNKZEd8MkGQkbVlSddFTiF7tBc4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78881 Archived-At: Rolf Ade 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