From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24020: [PATCHv2] Fix =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98[[:word:]]*\u2620=E2=80=99?= failing to match =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98foo\u2620=E2=80=99?= (bug#24020) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:00:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83r3ar0z0u.fsf@gnu.org> <1468884601-31164-1-git-send-email-mina86@mina86.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468915295 19329 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2016 08:01:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24020@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michal Nazarewicz Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 19 10:01:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxw-00025E-T5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53506 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxw-00089e-29 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxj-00083P-1Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxe-0004C2-6P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxe-0004Bx-30 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxd-0004bO-OJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:01:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andreas Schwab Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24020 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 24020-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24020.146891525517670 (code B ref 24020); Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:01:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24020) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jul 2016 08:00:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56465 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxV-0004au-Ez for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34043) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bPPxQ-0004ah-8O for 24020@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:00:51 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126E8AD44; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:00:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: O.K.! Speak with a PHILADELPHIA ACCENT!! Send out for CHINESE FOOD!! Hop a JET! In-Reply-To: <1468884601-31164-1-git-send-email-mina86@mina86.com> (Michal Nazarewicz's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:30:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:121256 Archived-At: Michal Nazarewicz writes: > For example, take regular expression ‘[[:alpha:]]*1’ trying to match > a string ‘foo’. Since the Kleene star is greedy, the engine will test > the shortest match for ‘[[:alpha:]]*’ which is ‘foo’. At this point Did you mean "the longest match"? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."