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Re: Info-search-whitespace


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Info-search-whitespace
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:09:08 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     He said removed, not replaced by an explicit group.  The shy group
>     encloses a single item and thus is completely redundant.
>
> Without the shy group, it would give wrong results when followed by ?.
> The + and the ? would combine to give the wrong meaning.

I have here from the past discussion:

> Info-search-whitespace to "unibyte:\\(?:\\s-+\\)*t" and on the line

This appears to me to be perfectly equivalent to

"unibyte:\\s-*t"

Where is my mistake?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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