Re: whats wrong in this picture - re-search-forward

[Miles Bader]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> M-x re-search-forward <RET>$ <RET> -  The cursor moves to the end of the
> first `one'.  Repeat the search the cursor doesn't move.  What happened
> to `forward'?
> 
> Is this a bug?

No; it's an artifact of the fact that the search matched a zero-length
sequence of characters.

The `repeating the search finds the next match' behavior is due to the
cursor being left at the end of the match, so that any subsequent
invocation will find the next occurance -- however, for zero-length
matches, the end of the match is the same as the beginning!

-Miles
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