From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smiley regexp problem
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:48:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5k6o27zuv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r7iaqaew.fsf@rajsekar.pc> (rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:53:19 +0530")
Rajsekar <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in> writes:
> Rajsekar <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> I see from theory that the needed language is still a regexp, yet i
> am not able to express it in the language of regexp. Is it a
> shortcoming in the language?
Why don't you match "laugh" first, and only look for a smile if no
laugh is can be found?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-17 11:55 smiley regexp problem Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:23 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:48 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-21 8:06 ` Rajsekar
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2005-03-21 10:47 LENNART BORGMAN
2005-03-21 12:12 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-21 13:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-21 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 19:53 ` Rajsekar
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