Re: Occur buglet

[Andreas Schwab]

Morten Welinder <terra@gnu.org> writes:

> On fencepost.gnu.org (Emacs 21.2.1) with a buffer containing
>
> --------------------------------------------
> +++
> +
>  hi
> xxx
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I do the command `M-x occur RET ^[+][^+] RET' and get
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 1 line matching "^[+][^+]" in buffer *scratch*.
>       2:+
>        : hi
> --------------------------------------------
>
> It is debatable whether there should be a match -- grep would not have
> found it -- but the listed thing is not one line, but two.

Not a bug.  [^+] matches newline in Emacs, but not in grep.  The second
line is actually part of the first match.

Andreas.

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