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- From: jonas@ericad.ericsson.SE (Jonas Jaernestroem TG/HK)
- Subject: looking-at-backward
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- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:10:58 GMT
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- In GNU Emacs 18.57.2 on a Sun Sparc SLC running 4.1.1 BSD.
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- The looking-at function is very handy to spot arbitrary regular
- expressions at point. I would like to have its backward counterpart as
- well. I guess it *is* possible to do with re-search-backward but then you
- have to compute the stop limit (not always so easy for reg exps) before
- calling it.
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- Jonas Jaernestroem Ericsson Telecom Sweden. jonas@ericad.ericsson.se
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