From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Dimech Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 14:28:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87cztpx8oz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zgwsx5r3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <20210518110743.GC11623@tuxteam.de> <20210518120238.GD11623@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21871"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 14:32:26 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1liytd-0005VZ-TG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 14:32:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44588 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1liytc-00011U-JL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 08:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1liypj-0006Jn-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 08:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:55949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1liype-0005QJ-7L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 08:28:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1621340891; bh=ZRy7cxJ/AeZuFvIKd8TjCsMf9XpNzbMJcSYwYbaCZ0E=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=A2k6z07QFE2YK80Xtt4CDQCmEPPbCF6s+Jqo4ufErb8W1vQqQOgz3Jo3NWrH9fgfH K/JqHyEqRALa0T++gKREjgOE4bXRoticuDsPoaClzqXVAxobM2jdKV8hnDWEiPGlMU R5Z64eI1Cnwe00sxlQ4x3BrhmO7JO5cAZupBQcjU= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Original-Received: from [213.165.168.94] ([213.165.168.94]) by web-mail.gmx.net (3c-app-mailcom-bs13.server.lan [172.19.170.181]) (via HTTP); Tue, 18 May 2021 14:28:11 +0200 Importance: normal Sensitivity: Normal In-Reply-To: <20210518120238.GD11623@tuxteam.de> X-UI-Message-Type: mail X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:o6F1GZZIiMzxpi+TuswpIla+MdxvucqysiFAvIeK9TJK/fm1RRQ5+Z+7rlE9onjpP5zKz UqltfdrOW3jHfkoyQOsR2x02iBKvrptOLFtkSwWccY+BQsB6tEh6oAir636PhWw6lw9RywOE5ofM 1wWDX8tNXPAwRsyAwr4sEzdKLR8NbzP07vPW32W5wRmUrgP80N8jOOnXCm2yzUROEeUmGWf3cPVH aST7QN2oj7J+xJL0rjHBdtUKTmeioHG/Cf/2btYgzuK4ZHHvtEMvX/aZTUva82HcTi59q5S9VvUf Gg= X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:rQO2r6JxL1Q=:6B7xiEV7hXDOTjyI/0DpRP WnpzURfcxjwBo4kXEty0/FnaDYV7GlrZFvc4ZTGyU76GpAoJt4OVocFOUUFeIcWrSoFZ3oEOv EVyio9WYB+dZq/nX9TBLhOeKlkreJ0ZE5YDuTivOcijAon4f0uXRkMC2i3ZGRKmsoDSVMKXk/ PppIwIlyMrhvVj43K6wH4rL3rRDElOCjrKdA2fc2623K2BoZX/PHd4sfFepr17FVy66gLENcV Q4x+/f+1G7zVxL4l+8qqqHpL/XCtsve3bMewtf84u6nmgx5TOhMqNglkCV+arSjyOgwyKQ+Mz TwhDWznjE9/vEmpoMUlUdsa8EBj/MorZuR6UXovseXiYCFhJ8gdXa5vPeBtWWdYrNkRrjolP9 WhrsCxTAGbi8aynunORLCA8YtkLMU0cCUvqZ5+a47Yn15WgNqn8I9hgnNh/+eKFSGM+mnhRk9 ofNLpUi+fisG5Qi1vluBfcqxM1Y95/jmbsgGLLo8jCX/5P7u7r7ukxSjSnz/vlmS/PQcv9+pP vPIIBY7Vc3+x/ebmwFbfaeved98iaWwbTACUw9FDzHfUEttd1UcR7lLpJ/MbC/nC1+KsCk83L bRGjM9RRa82+n89hkuRGyTfbiLU0toMDUFzR9V8hbKvUITToxBRQIrnRAtBJ1GrH8GGlIxpq2 Qgl8u8WI8MGXbvLdZvm7wkFE1oACwU8ZZKVfusc5Zp2P2bpvx1qTg+2y41quBGpey7LqqdQml Z1BPO3hbxXXv97JJJwbqoC1BC3HmrvyTokBQ+91A+4xglKBFPwoMmKWOjFjkk5JChZh0jduM Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.227.15.19; envelope-from=dimech@gmx.com; helo=mout.gmx.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129875 Archived-At: Had not realised that "^" meant "not following". Interpreted as meaning "beginning of line". > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 12:02 AM > From: tomas@tuxteam.de > To: "Christopher Dimech" > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 01:26:12PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > [...] > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > > How is it that the following returns nil? > > > > > > > > (setq sa (string-match "[^[:blank:]]" " ")) > > > > > > Because you stated to match any non-blank character and there > > > are only blank characters to match. > > > > The docstring for string-match is > > > > "Return index of start of first match for REGEXP in STRING, or nil." > > > > I find the description different from what string-match actually retur= ns. > > ? > > Cheers > - t >