Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?

[Mathias Dahl]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Because the regular expression . matches any character except newline, 
> while [^;] matches any character except ';'.  So newline matches [^;].

So what happens is that the match begin at the empty line then and
then "wraps around" to the next row? How can I avoid it?