From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?3m9ybmU=?=" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp problem Date: 12 Aug 2006 02:46:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1155375993.387654.155950@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> References: <1155353594.291023.218010@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87slk24ney.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155379229 15908 80.91.229.2 (12 Aug 2006 10:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 12:40:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBquo-0002PH-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBquo-0000f8-36 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.203.232.102 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1155375998 29173 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2006 09:46:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:46:38 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87slk24ney.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.203.232.102; posting-account=ex57WA0AAACaCEDAUgwge-MEQqyxT87Q Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141000 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36625 Archived-At: 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 \ 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.