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Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)]
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Oliver Scholz |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)] |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:55:02 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> I don't know whether Detlev Zundel is still available,
> so I cc'd this to emacs-devel. If Detlev doesn't fix this,
> I hope that someone else will do so.
I gave it a shot.
[...]
>> I also find (and I'm not quite sure whether it's a real bug or just
>> something I haven't understood about regexps or re-builder) that
>> expressions such as "\\>" and "$" in the re-builder buffer don't work
>> (and are flagged as "*invalid*" in the modeline) but ".\\>" and ".$",
>>
>> Would you please send a precise, complete test case for this?
>
> Open a new buffer, put it in text mode and insert a line of text into it:
>
> C-x b *reb-test* RET M-x text-mode RET
> Kidman's publicist, Catherine Olim, said the star was trying to shake
> zombies off the bonnet of her Jaguar when the car spun off the road. RET
>
> Try to use re-builder to count the number of words in the buffer:
>
> M-x re-builder RET
> \\>
>
> As soon as the first `\' is entered between the `"'s, in the
> *RE-Builder* buffer, "*invalid*" appears in the modeline.
> Now replace the regexp in the *RE-Builder* buffer with another:
>
> DEL DEL DEL
> .\\>
>
> Success! - the last character of each word in the *reb-test* buffer
> has been highlighted and a message, "25 matches" has appeared in the
> minibuffer. Likewise, the regexp, "^" will not find the empty string
> at the beginning of the buffer but "^." will and "$" will not find the
> end of the buffer but ".$" will.
This happens in line 646 and following of re-builder.el.
`reb-update-overlays' `re-search'es the buffer and checks whether the
match is empty, otherwise it updates the match-overlays:
(if (= 0 (length (match-string 0)))
(error "Empty regular expression!"))
So, this "bug" seems to be intentional. I wouldn't know what to do,
anyways. How do you highlight an empty string?
Oliver
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- address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Richard Stallman, 2007/03/06
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)],
Oliver Scholz <=
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Detlev Zundel, 2007/03/09
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Richard Stallman, 2007/03/10
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Detlev Zundel, 2007/03/12
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Richard Stallman, 2007/03/12
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/13
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Richard Stallman, 2007/03/13
- Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], Juanma Barranquero, 2007/03/18
Re: address@hidden: Re: re-builder bug(s)], P.L.Hayes, 2007/03/10