Re: Regex is not being as "hungry" as it is supposed to

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 06.08.2010 09:03, schrieb suvayu ali:
> On 5 August 2010 23:49, Tassilo Horn<tassilo@member.fsf.org>  wrote:
> > Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
> >
> > > same at
> > >
> > > GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2010-02-19
> > >
> > > replacement works as desribed, just the highlighting fails.
>
> Usually when I see the highlighting is wrong I don't proceed with the
> replace. I guess that is why I didn't pick up on the fact that the
> highlighting is the problem. :-p
>
> After seeing all the responses I proceeded with the replace, and I see
> the same behaviour. Thank you every one for confirming this.
>
> > Ditto with the current emacs 24 bzr trunk.  I've reported the bug as
> > #6808.
>
> Thanks a lot Tassilo! :)
>
> > Bye,
> > Tassilo

BTW, as running into difficulties with regexps is common:
quite often helps ancoring it

^\(.+ \)[0-9]+ =

\1

circumvents the bug