From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smiley regexp problem
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:22:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002601c52e19$25b053a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3y8churis.fsf@rajsekar.pc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajsekar" <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in>
> The point is about \\W. \\W matches any character that is not a
> word-constituent. I want `:-)' to become a smile if it is followed by any
> of `\\W' but not ')'. If I put it as "\\(:-?)\\)[^)]", then even strings
> like "smile_within:-)strings" also get smileys. So I am looking for a way
> to specify "characters in \\W but no ')' in the language of regexps".
Oh, I see. I can't find any way to do it. You can perhaps build a larger
[^...] but that is not exactly what you want. BTW the reg exps in perl is a
bit stronger and I believe things like what you want can be done there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-21 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 10:47 smiley regexp problem LENNART BORGMAN
2005-03-21 12:12 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-21 13:22 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-03-21 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 19:53 ` Rajsekar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-17 11:55 Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:23 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:48 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 8:06 ` Rajsekar
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