From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Implement new symbol-start and symbol-end regexp operators Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:38:35 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200407160238.i6G2cZ108348@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200406100032.i5A0W1A08327@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089945734 849 80.91.224.253 (16 Jul 2004 02:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jimb@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 04:42:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlIfh-0005xP-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlIfh-0004JO-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BlIiC-0004Ex-Vt for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BlIi3-0004EV-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BlIi0-0004Dz-MC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BlIi0-0004Dw-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BlIfE-0000Lz-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6G2fNuE002068; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:41:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i6G2cZ108348; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:38:35 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200406100032.i5A0W1A08327@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:32:01 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25744 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25744 I asked this before, but apparently the documentation for this has not been updated, as far as I can tell: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I find these really useful --- finally I can isearch-regexp for > identifiers in code and match exactly what I mean. Synthesizing these > operators from the existing ones is a pain, partly because "symbol > constituents" are those characters whose syntax is *either* 'word' or > 'symbol'. Installed, You seem to have installed Jim's changes to search.c and regex.c, but not to searching.texi, nor, in as far as I can tell, to the NEWS. As a result, the changes are, in as far as I can tell, completely undocumented. Is there a reason for that?