bug#1299: marked as done (lispref - searching.texi: Updating of looking-back arguments and return values in the example)

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and subject line Re: bug#1299: lispref - searching.texi: Updating of 
looking-back arguments and return values in the example
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regarding lispref - searching.texi: Updating of looking-back arguments and 
return values in the example
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> lispref - searching.texi: Updating of looking-back arguments and return values in the example
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> Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:06:29 +0100
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> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
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> See the diff attached. Note that I copied the explanation for greedy
> argument of `looking-back' function. Because I'm not a native speaker
> so probably this paragraph requires some rephrasing. 
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> diff -ud /home/sewi/emacs_cvs/emacs/doc/lispref/searching.texi 
> /home/sewi/emacs_cvs/emacs/doc/lispref/searching_cor.texi
> --- /home/sewi/zrodla/elisp_files/emacs_cvs/emacs/doc/lispref/searching.texi    
> 2008-11-02 19:39:21.000000000 +0100
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> /home/sewi/zrodla/elisp_files/emacs_cvs/emacs/doc/lispref/searching_cor.texi    
>     2008-11-02 19:54:10.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@
>  @end example
>  @end defun
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> -@defun looking-back regexp &optional limit
> +@defun looking-back regexp &optional limit greedy
>  This function returns @code{t} if @var{regexp} matches text before
>  point, ending at point, and @code{nil} otherwise.
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> @@ -1105,6 +1105,10 @@
>  not to search before @var{limit}.  In this case, the match that is
>  found must begin at or after @var{limit}.
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> +If greedy is non-nil, extend the match backwards as far as possible,
> +stopping when a single additional previous character cannot be part
> +of a match for regexp.
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>  @example
>  @group
>  ---------- Buffer: foo ----------
> @@ -1408,7 +1412,7 @@
>    (re-search-forward "The \\(cat \\)")
>    (match-beginning 0)
>    (match-beginning 1))
> -    @result{} (9 9 13)
> +    @result{} (17 9 13)
>  @end group
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>  @group
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> Diff finished.  Sun Nov  2 19:54:17 2008
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> regards,
> Seweryn Kokot
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> Re: bug#1299: lispref - searching.texi: Updating of looking-back arguments and return values in the example
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> Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:21:31 -0500
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> Seweryn Kokot <sewkokot@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > See the diff attached. Note that I copied the explanation for greedy
> > argument of `looking-back' function.
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> Thanks.  I've checked in your patch with some minor modifications.
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> martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
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> > FWIW, it might not harm to also resolve the contradiction that REGEXP
> > can match _before_ LIMIT when GREEDY is non-nil (in the manual _and_
> > the doc-string).
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> I noted this in the manual and the doc-string.  Thanks.
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