From: Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: re-search beginning of line or whitespace
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 03:23:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051102032355.GA10016@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051102023946.GB1791@johnsons-web.com>
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:39:46PM -0900, thus spake Tim Johnson:
> (re-search-backward "^\|[\t ]") ;; gives me an error
>
> What am I leaving out.
A slash ;)
The correct syntax is (re-search-backward "^\\|[\t ]") with your
syntax you are searcing for a line starting with a pipe ("|") and
continuing with white space. Appanently your buffer doesn't contain
such a line.
> TIA
> tim
--
Computer science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is
about telescopes.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 15:23 ^[$B:G?78D<<3+J|^[(B info
2005-11-02 2:39 ` re-search beginning of line or whitespace Tim Johnson
2005-11-02 3:23 ` Neon Absentius [this message]
2005-11-02 17:19 ` Tim Johnson
2005-11-03 20:33 ` Neon Absentius
2005-11-04 16:38 ` Info [was Re: re-search beginning of line or whitespace] Tim Johnson
[not found] ` <mailman.13851.1131050044.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-04 1:05 ` re-search beginning of line or whitespace Johan Bockgård
2005-11-04 1:47 ` Neon Absentius
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