emacs -D -Q please insert something in the line of
hans ooffoo ooffoo ooffoo hans hans ooffoo ooffoo ooffoo hans and do a "C-M-r" search for "o.*o", repeat possibly the search and change to "C-M-s". You will see that the search results are very different. Some days ago I asked on gnu.emacs.help whether there is a reason for this behaviour. I think one would expect the same search results in forward and backward direction. In GNU Emacs 22.0.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-12-22 on hans X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Group Minor modes in effect: display-time-mode: t gnus-topic-mode: t gnus-undo-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t auto-insert-mode: t show-paren-mode: t minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent input: <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> M-> n n n C-M-k SPC n SPC SPC SPC < SPC SPC SPC q g M-< n <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n <return> E q L C-n C-n C-n <return> M-> C-p C-p <return> q n n <return> <down> <down> C-M-k q M-< n n n <return> q M-x e m a c s - b u <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> b u g <tab> <M-backspace> r e p <tab> o <tab> r <tab> b <tab> <return> Recent messages: No more unread articles Mark set Retrieving newsgroup: nnml+private:mail.dalug... Fetching headers for nnml+private:mail.dalug...done Scoring...done Generating summary...done Expiring articles...done Auto-saving... Making completion list... [2 times] Loading emacsbug...done -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug