From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp does not work as documented
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijprrzecxk.fsf@remote5.student.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200805060330.45156.bruno@clisp.org
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> The regular expression (as an Emacs string)
> "^msgstr\\(\\[[0-9]\\]\\)?.*\n\\(\".*\n\\)*"
> is supposed to search for a line starting with "msgstr" and an optional
> digit inside brackets, followed by as many lines starting with a double-quote
> as possible. The Emacs documentation says:
>
> "The matcher processes a `*' construct by matching, immediately, as
> many repetitions as can be found."
>
> This is apparently not the case with the above regexp.
This is a font lock problem.
(info "(elisp) Multiline Font Lock")
--
Johan Bockgård
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 1:30 regexp does not work as documented Bruno Haible
2008-05-06 14:15 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2015-12-29 17:48 ` bug#192: " Bruno Haible
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2008-05-06 4:20 Chong Yidong
2008-05-06 11:35 ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-06 12:12 ` martin rudalics
2008-05-10 19:18 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-10 20:13 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-11 7:40 ` martin rudalics
2008-05-11 14:27 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-11 15:36 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-11 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-11 19:09 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-12 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 15:03 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-12 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 17:04 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-11 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-11 20:03 ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-12 1:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 3:30 ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-12 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-12 15:55 ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-12 16:18 ` tomas
2008-05-06 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 21:29 ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-10 20:04 ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-06 15:00 ` David Koppelman
2008-05-06 21:35 ` Bruno Haible
2008-05-07 1:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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