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[PATCH] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620’

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>

Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:06:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>
Cc: 24020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24020: [PATCHv2] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620’ (bug#24020)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:00:46 +0200

Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com> writes:

> For example, take regular expression ‘[[:alpha:]]*1’ trying to match
> a string ‘foo’.  Since the Kleene star is greedy, the engine will test
> the shortest match for ‘[[:alpha:]]*’ which is ‘foo’.  At this point

Did you mean "the longest match"?

Andreas.

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