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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#9681: Broken behaviour of re-search-backward (.+ matching only a single character) |
| Date: | Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:57:09 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
> If this curious inconsistency of `re-search-backward' with
> `re-search-forward' is intentional (which I hope it is not), it should
> be documented, but I couldn't find anything in the manuals or
> docstrings.
re-search-* stops at the first character position that has a match.
And then it chooses the longest match at that position.
Stefan
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