From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rajsekar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: smiley regexp problem Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:25:38 +0530 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111061350 2760 80.91.229.2 (17 Mar 2005 12:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 13:09:10 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBtoG-0006xf-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:09:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBu4Y-0007S2-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBtyx-0006TQ-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBtyo-0006QT-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBtyn-0006ND-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:19:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.141.25.89] (helo=pridns.cs.iitm.ernet.in) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DBtc1-0006yJ-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in (meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in [10.6.10.2]) by pridns.cs.iitm.ernet.in (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2HC0V8b006534 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:30:32 +0530 Original-Received: from rajsekar.pc ([10.132.7.21]) by meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id j2HBgbo31602 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:12:37 +0530 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34661 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34661 I want to setup the smileys similar to gaim. So I put "\\(:)\\)\\W" for smile. and "\\(:))\\)\\W" for laugh. The problem is that :)) also contains a :). At the same time, i do not want to replace \W with something like [^)] because i lose the advantage of \W (which works based on the current syntax). I want something like \\W minus the character `('. Can someone tell me how to achieve this? -- Rajsekar Manokaran IIT Madras