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Re: Irritation about re-search-backward


From: Ralf Fassel
Subject: Re: Irritation about re-search-backward
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 11:23:59 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

* Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
| BTW to get the "greedy" match backwards I use now a further element in
| the search pattern like (re-search-backward "^a*").

Note that this matches each and every line, even those not starting with 'a'.

HTH
R'


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