Re: Irritation about re-search-backward

[Michael Heerdegen]

Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> writes:

> * 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'.

Indeed.  Or the OP wants `looking-back' instead of `re-search-backward'.


Michael.