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Re: regexp does not work as documented
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: regexp does not work as documented |
Date: |
Tue, 6 May 2008 23:35:59 +0200 |
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David Koppelman wrote:
> Later in the week I'll look into it and provide either a fix
> or document the limitation.
Thank you!
Chong Yidong wrote:
> > OTOH, I don't see what we can do about this problem. Maybe we could add
> > a note to the docstring of highlight-regexp saying that multi-line
> > regular expressions are problematic? Does anyone have a suggestion?
As an end user, for testing the effect of a regexp on a buffer interactively,
I would prefer to have a "volatile" coloring (i.e. one that disappears at the
next buffer modification) but is correct, rather than a documented-to-be-wrong
coloring that updates itself correctly during buffer modifications. Less
functionality but implemented correctly.
OTOH, third-party packages may prefer the current behaviour if their regexps
match only portions of a line.
Bruno
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, (continued)
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Thomas Lord, 2008/05/11
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/11
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Thomas Lord, 2008/05/11
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/12
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, Thomas Lord, 2008/05/12
- Re: regexp does not work as documented, tomas, 2008/05/12
Re: regexp does not work as documented, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/06
Re: regexp does not work as documented, David Koppelman, 2008/05/06
- Re: regexp does not work as documented,
Bruno Haible <=