Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?

[Johan Bockgård]

"Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden> writes:

>> If you want to reject matches that extend past some point, just do
>> something like:
>>
>>   (and (looking-at REGEXP) (<= (match-end 0) BOUND))
>
>
> Thanks Miles,
>
> Yes, that is one possibility. But then perhaps I would assume that
> re-search-forward better might optimize that search since it can (in
> theory) cut off the searching at BOUND. In the case I am looking at
> performance is important.

You can try narrowing the buffer.

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Johan Bockgård