Re: Why are RegExps never working?

From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are RegExps never working?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:52:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66BB130D-350E-44AF-AA95-23572B99AAD4@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abpkolme.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu>

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Am 11.11.2007 um 16:19 schrieb Sven Bretfeld:

> This works perfectly (of course). I will search in the info for the
> difference between a line feed and an end of line, which is not clear
> to me.

I'm not sure whether it's described so clearly. The main thing is  
that text is line oriented and therefore $ states end of line. And  
therefore regular expressions end at line's end. So in the middle of  
the from part $ cannot have another meaning than the character $  
itself. If the from part has to stretch over more than one line, then  
each line ending has to be expressed with the linefeed character that  
separates the text into more than one line. Could be sometimes a  
carriage return (^M) has to be used, or some combination of carriage  
return and linefeed ...

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