Re: regexp does not work as documented

[Johan Bockgård]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> The regular expression (as an Emacs string)
>   "^msgstr\\(\\[[0-9]\\]\\)?.*\n\\(\".*\n\\)*"
> is supposed to search for a line starting with "msgstr" and an optional
> digit inside brackets, followed by as many lines starting with a double-quote
> as possible. The Emacs documentation says:
>
>   "The matcher processes a `*' construct by matching, immediately, as
>    many repetitions as can be found."
>
> This is apparently not the case with the above regexp.

This is a font lock problem.

(info "(elisp) Multiline Font Lock")

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Johan Bockgård