GNU bug report logs - #5989
23.1.96; bug 4209 not completely fixed (regression in re-search-forward)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Christopher J. Madsen" <cjm <at> cjmweb.net>

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, notabug

Found in versions 25.0.94, 23.4, 24.5

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 5989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: 5989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, cjm <at> cjmweb.net
Subject: Re: bug#5989: 23.1.96;
 bug 4209 not completely fixed (regression in re-search-forward)
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 12:51:07 -0400

tag 5989 + notabug
quit

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> If you don't make the buffer unibyte, everything works as expected.
> Using multibyte buffers even for raw bytes is what we recommend.  So I
> see no problem here that we should work on: unibyte buffers are not
> meant to process text.


Makes sense. (adding OP back on CC; still getting used to debbugs, so
I had dropped them in my previous message)
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