GNU bug report logs - #9681
Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:20:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Merged with 11025, 24801

Found in versions 23.1, 25.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: 9681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stepnem <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#9681: Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:56:27 -0400

>> It's not the ideal behavior, admittedly.  It's even more obvious in
>> `looking-back'.  But fixing it would require the implementation of
>> a backward regexp matcher.
> FYI, in Mule (the version before integrating into Emacs), we
> implemented such a feature by doing these:

I actually think it would be nice to have such a thing, but I also think
it'd be more important to have a non-backtracking regexp matcher.

> multilingual feature.  And actually, that feature had been
> used very rarely.

Indeed, it's not often needed, but those few cases can be significant.


        Stefan
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