Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a-1 Severity: normal I wanted to show the non-comment lines in a config file I was editing, so I tried to use the M-x occur (a.k.a. list-matching-lines) command with the regexp "^[^#]" (without the quotes). This failed with "Args out of range: NUMBER NUMBER". It turns out that the [^#] fragment also matches the newline character, which I was not expecting, since the documentation for the "occur" command says "Display a list showing each *line* in the buffer that contains a match..." (my emphasis).
The current behaviour is not useful, inconsistent with documentation, and an nuisance to the use of the command. I consider it a bug; in my opinion it should be changed to not match the newline character. /Teddy -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management ii libtiff4 3.7.2-5 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libungif4g 4.1.3-2sarge1 shared library for GIF images (run ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-8 Xaw3d widget set ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
