Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <m27j825iw0.fsf@gmail.com>,
 Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Use [^;<newline>] in the regular expression, where <newline> is entered 
with C-q C-j.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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