Re: occur "^[^#]" gets next line too

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1464.1065762573.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Dan Jacobson  <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
>Andreas> [^#] matches a newline.  If you don't want that fix your regex.
>
>There is no # mentioned in Syntax of Regular Expressions Info page of
>Emacs Info.

[^#] matches any character that isn't '#'.  Newline isn't '#', so it
matches it.

If you want to match any character that isn't '#' or newline, use "[^#\n]"
in Lisp code, or [^#C-qC-j] when entering a regexp interactively.

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