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From: Þorne <ego111@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: regexp problem
Date: 12 Aug 2006 02:46:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155375993.387654.155950@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slk24ney.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> You can match groups:
>
> a\(b\)c
>
> so the match number 0 is the whole regexp: abc
> but the match number 1 is only b

Sorry to be dense, but do you mean something like this:

(search-forward-regexp "a\\(b\\)c\\0")

because i can't get anything like it to work.  I don't really follow
the documentation for the \<digit> construct in regexps at all...

In fact the code above finds a string that looks like `abc0' instead of
just `b'.

Specifically i am trying to make a regexp for define-generic-mode to
colorize the string`*' but only if it is in a string that looks like
`(*)'.  But not colorize the surrounding parens.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-12  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-12  3:33 regexp problem Þorne
2006-08-12  3:56 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-08-12  9:46   ` Þorne [this message]
2006-08-12 10:12     ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-08-12 11:02       ` Þorne

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