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bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds
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Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds |
Date: |
Thu, 24 May 2018 20:31:09 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>> +Note that searching backwards may give a shorter match than expected,
>> +because the matching still happens in the forward direction. See Info
>> +anchor `(elisp) re-search-backward' for details. */)
> Too bad that the anchor is located after the relevant description.
I don't understand what you mean.
> FWIW; I still prefer the original sentence, I find it describes the
> behavior best, and short (which is good for a docstring). It is also
> good to have an alternative and more verbose explanation in the manual.
I find the original sentence kind of cryptic, but I'm okay to be
outvoted on this.
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds,
Noam Postavsky <=
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/25
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/25
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/05/24
- bug#31584: 27.0.50; Document again what match re-search-backward finds, Drew Adams, 2018/05/24