Re: regexp match failure

["sandro.dentella" <sandro@e-den.it>]

> `\S' is not a valid regexp, it needs a following syntax code.  And since
> you apparently want to match characters which *are* letters rather than
> those which are *not*, `\s' is the appropriate construct with the `w'
> code: "^\\sw+:"

ok, thanks for pointing this out, I'm just too used to perl/python
regexp that I passed over it


> Inside of the `[...]' construct, backslash constructs are not special
> (RTFM).  But in Emacs 22 you can do this: "^[[:alnum:]]+:"

I ended up using \\S-+ to catch also the '-' char.

Thanks again
sandro
*:-)