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Regexps info page. Clarification on \' and \`, please!
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Regexps info page. Clarification on \' and \`, please! |
Date: |
9 Nov 2001 13:15:07 +0100 |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:14:45 +0000 |
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tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) |
"Regexps" page in the Emacs v21 manual. [Probably the corresponding page
in the elisp manual, too.]
In this page it says:
:`\''
: matches the empty string, but only at the end of the buffer or
: string being matched against.
I believe that something like the following should be appended:
"If narrowing is in effect, it matches at the end of the accessible
portion of the buffer."
I think it would also be helpful if it was mentioned (at least, in the
elisp manual) that reaching the limit in functions such as
(search-forward-regexp re limit) doesn't count as "at the end of the
string".
[Corresponding remarks also apply to the description of \`.]
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove one of them (leaving, say, "a").
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