From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Richard KLINDA <rklinda@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG]: function looking-back (XEmacs incompatibility)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:34:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8CFE4AAA-AAA0-479D-9B14-5D326768AAFC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wdmw6r4.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi RIchard,
this code is already (and has been for a few weeks) in org-compat.el
- Carsten
On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Richard KLINDA wrote:
> XEmacs and older Emacs (22 and below) don't have the function
> LOOKING-BACK.
>
> I've found a definiton of it here: http://moinmo.in/EmacsForMoinMoin
>
> ,----
> | (or (fboundp 'looking-back)
> | ; taken straight out of http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/subr.el?rev=1.530&view=auto
> | (defun looking-back (regexp &optional limit greedy)
> | "Return non-nil if text before point matches regular
> expression REGEXP.
> | Like `looking-at' except matches before point, and is slower.
> | LIMIT if non-nil speeds up the search by specifying a minimum
> | starting position, to avoid checking matches that would start
> | before LIMIT.
> | If GREEDY is non-nil, extend the match backwards as far as possible,
> | stopping when a single additional previous character cannot be part
> | of a match for REGEXP."
> | (let ((start (point))
> | (pos
> | (save-excursion
> | (and (re-search-backward (concat "\\(?:" regexp "\\)
> \\=") limit t)
> | (point)))))
> | (if (and greedy pos)
> | (save-restriction
> | (narrow-to-region (point-min) start)
> | (while (and (> pos (point-min))
> | (save-excursion
> | (goto-char pos)
> | (backward-char 1)
> | (looking-at (concat "\\(?:" regexp "\
> \)\\'"))))
> | (setq pos (1- pos)))
> | (save-excursion
> | (goto-char pos)
> | (looking-at (concat "\\(?:" regexp "\\)\\'")))))
> | (not (null pos)))))
> `----
>
> --
> Richard
>
>
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- Carsten
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2009-12-02 0:37 [BUG]: function looking-back (XEmacs incompatibility) Richard KLINDA
2009-12-02 5:34 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-12-02 12:32 ` Richard KLINDA
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