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According to docs non-greedy regexp should work in guile but they don't

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Michael Gerdau <mgd <at> qata.de>
Cc: 20655-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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

On Mon 25 May 2015 23:58, Michael Gerdau <mgd <at> 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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