From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info-search-whitespace Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:09:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <878y942l8h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <20041114232600.GA12968@fencepost> <20041118170700.GG5243@xts.gnuu.de> <87fz36h90m.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <873bz6l99n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101053420 20916 80.91.229.6 (21 Nov 2004 16:10:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 21 17:10:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CVuI0-0005aL-00 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:10:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CVuR0-0007m3-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CVuQm-0007kv-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CVuQl-0007k6-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CVuQl-0007jo-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CVuH6-0004kO-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CVuFO-0000qw-Ey; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:30 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:39:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30190 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30190 Richard Stallman writes: > He said removed, not replaced by an explicit group. The shy group > encloses a single item and thus is completely redundant. > > Without the shy group, it would give wrong results when followed by ?. > The + and the ? would combine to give the wrong meaning. I have here from the past discussion: > Info-search-whitespace to "unibyte:\\(?:\\s-+\\)*t" and on the line This appears to me to be perfectly equivalent to "unibyte:\\s-*t" Where is my mistake? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum