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Re: difficulty entering balance mode
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: difficulty entering balance mode |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:19:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:
> $ matches end of line. ' matches end of string
> or buffer.
Aha, crystal clear!
> If you use $ instead of ' when matching a string,
> you will falsely succeed if there's an internal
> newline. Luckily that doesn't often happen with
> file names.
>
> If you use neither, you will falsely succeed if the
> search text occurs in the middle of the string,
> which could very well happen with file names.
I see. This never happened because I never have dots
in my filenames save for the at the extention! See,
I'm so good, even when I make a mistake, nothing bad
can happen to me :) Nevertheless I'll change that to
\\' which is the right way.
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- Re: difficulty entering balance mode, (continued)
- Re: difficulty entering balance mode, Ian Zimmerman, 2015/07/29
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- Re: difficulty entering balance mode, Haines Brown, 2015/07/30
- Re: difficulty entering balance mode, Emanuel Berg, 2015/07/30
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