From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: need to recognize non-ASCII identifiers
Date: 03 Apr 2003 17:31:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqk7ebh7aa.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bznn8o5j6.fsf@lister.roxen.com>
Martin Stjernholm <mast@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> Even in other versions there's the possibility to use \sw etc.
Yes, but that's even less useful for non-ASCII text, which is why we
needed the POSIX char classes.
> The problem has been that there's no character class that matches
> all alphabetic characters but not the digits. However, you mentioned
> [:alpha:] which would presumably do just that.
Yes.
> You said it works in Emacs 21, but I haven't been able to find any doc
> on these new character classes in the manual for Emacs 21.2. Where can
> I read about it?
Info node `Char Classes' or regex(7).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-03 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-02 17:05 need to recognize non-ASCII identifiers Dave Love
2003-04-02 23:15 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-04-03 16:31 ` Dave Love [this message]
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2003-04-03 0:50 Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-03 11:22 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-04-04 6:58 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-08 22:38 ` Martin Stjernholm
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