From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Michael Gerdau <mgd@qata.de>
Cc: 20655-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20655: According to docs non-greedy regexp should work in guile but they don't
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:41:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760szljsk.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3731893.AiLGfpWM9Y@hamiller> (Michael Gerdau's message of "Mon, 25 May 2015 23:58:53 +0200")
On Mon 25 May 2015 23:58, Michael Gerdau <mgd@qata.de> writes:
> the guile documentation under
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Regular-Expressions.html#index-regular-expressions
> directly references Regular expressions used in Emacs which do
> support non-greedy regexp.
>
> However in the archive of the guile-devel ML I found a thread that seems
> to indicate that guile simply does not support non-greedy regexp, which
> is perfectly in line with my findings (see below).
>
> AFAICT this is either misleading if not an outright documentation bug,
> or a missing feature in guile.
A documentation bug indeed. Fixed in git by Diogo Ramos.
Thanks for the report,
Andy
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2015-05-25 21:58 bug#20655: According to docs non-greedy regexp should work in guile but they don't Michael Gerdau
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