Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.02.2006 um 20:00 schrieb Mattis:

> > > In buffer 0, test1 and test2 willreturn the same result,  
> > > "row1;test1",
> > > but in buffer 1, test1 will return "\nrow1;test1" (\n is a newline)
> > > and test2 "row1;test1".

I've seen the same behaviour of search-forward-regexp "^[^;]+;.*text"  
a few times, wrapping around into the next line. It's obvious that  
newline is not semicolon, so it complies with the search regexp. I  
have no better advice than to use a non-discriminating regexp, i.e.  
search for a set of real characters.

It would probably make more sense to learn the new set of descriptors  
for regexp's (the Perl look alikes), and in which version of GNU  
Emacs they actually work ...

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  Pete

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