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Re: regexp does not work as documented
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: regexp does not work as documented |
Date: |
Tue, 06 May 2008 21:04:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> As an end user, for testing the effect of a regexp on a buffer interactively,
> I would prefer to have a "volatile" coloring (i.e. one that disappears at the
> next buffer modification) but is correct, rather than a documented-to-be-wrong
> coloring that updates itself correctly during buffer modifications. Less
> functionality but implemented correctly.
Actually, we can get the combination of the two. hilight-changes
(c|sh)ould use its own loop with re-search-forward, even when font-lock
is enabled. This way the highlighting would be initially correct, and
in some cases it would also be correctly preserved/discovered later on.
This would only be used for regexp that can span multiple lines, so
highlight-changes (c|sh)ould analyse the regexp to see if there's
a possibility for it to match multiple lines.
Stefan
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, (continued)
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/11
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Thomas Lord, 2008/05/11
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/12
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Thomas Lord, 2008/05/12
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, tomas, 2008/05/12
Re: regexp does not work as documented, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/06
Re: regexp does not work as documented, David Koppelman, 2008/05/06