From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:19:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EF727E.6050808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9a3e2b7-8cfb-4594-96af-e29065000876@b31g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
Nordlöw wrote:
> Does Emacs provide a shorter way of matching an emacs-lisp symbol
> (identifier) than the following:
> "\\(" "\\(?:" "\\w\\|\\s_" "\\)+" "\\)"
You mean the concatenation of those strings? (BTW, if you want to make
it easier to read then rx is an alternative.)
You do not need two level of parenthesis. Use either the shy group or
the submatch group type parenthesis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 11:33 Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp Nordlöw
2008-10-10 15:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-10-10 18:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-10 18:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-10 15:47 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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