unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: What's the deal with character classes in regexps?
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:31:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzr65sew.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85r6maxxd9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup writes:

 > If I do
 > C-u C-s [:ascii:]

AIUI the delimiters for such symbols are [: and :].  To specify a
character class containing exactly the ASCII repertoire, use [[:ascii:]].

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-11  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-11  8:56 What's the deal with character classes in regexps? David Kastrup
2007-08-11  9:27 ` Sven Joachim
2007-08-11  9:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2007-08-11 10:16   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 15:49     ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-08-11  9:36 ` David Hansen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87tzr65sew.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp \
    --to=stephen@xemacs.org \
    --cc=dak@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).