From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Matching labels with buttons Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:25:42 +0000 Message-ID: <72n913q3Tv6RlKwXsHxBXRlGEwuYia37iCUcLQg-7S8aHg_qVwE6JhXMRN3wk1IajDCeqvM7QD9yv5EM9yF75G8zwWyPb_VpQAqf_GqasdM=@protonmail.com> References: <87r0bug978.fsf@rub.de> <87msmig6lz.fsf@rub.de> <87ikx6g49y.fsf@rub.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30336"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Stephen Berman , Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 15 19:26:59 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sTPTW-0007da-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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= [-] LB > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > (progn > > > > > > > (setq bt (match-string 1 label)) > > > > > > > (setq lb (match-string 2 label)) > > > > > > > (setq result > > > > > > > (concat bt (propertize lb 'face '(:foreground "red"))))) > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > (when (string-match "\\(.\\)\\(\\s-\\[\\-\\]\\s-*\\)" label) = ; LB [-] > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > (setq lb (match-string 1 label)) > > > > > > > (setq bt (match-string 2 label)) > > > > > > > (setq result > > > > > > > (concat (propertize lb 'face '(:foreground "red")) bt))) > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > Doing some tests with > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > "OFF [-]" > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > keeps matching the first string-match > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > That's because your regexp isn't anchored, so string-match succ= eeds if > > > > > > it finds a match anywhere in the string passed to it. To avoid = this, > > > > > > start the regexp with "\\`", which anchors it to the start of t= he string > > > > > > being matched against; see (info "(elisp) Regexp Backslash"). > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > Steve Berman > > > > >=20 > > > > > I would like to have two regex expressions, one to match only " [= -] LABEL " and > > > > > another to match only " LABEL [-] ". With any number of whitespac= e. > > > > >=20 > > > > > Can one use "^" ? Or is "\\`" preferred ? > > > >=20 > > > > If you are always matching against a string, e.g. just using > > > > string-match, then IIUC "^" and "\\`" give the same results. If you= are matching against test in a buffer, e.g. with re-search-forward, lookin= g-at etc., then they can differ: "^" matches the beginning the the line con= taining the matched string, "\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\`" the beginning of the string > > > > itself, regardless of where in the line it is (at point-min the res= ults > > > > are the same). > > > >=20 > > > > > And can one use "[[:space:]]" rather > > > > > than "\\s-" ? Which is preferred ? > > > >=20 > > > > IIUC these both give the same results. > > > >=20 > > > > Steve Berman > > >=20 > > > Would I introduce \\` before the first grouping > > >=20 > > > "\\`\\(\\s-\\[\\-\\]\\s-\\)\\(.*\\)" > >=20 > > Since "\\`" matches the empty string, I don't think it matters whether > > it's inside or outside of the group. But since in this case it's > > anchoring the entire regexp, it seems conceptually preferable to keep i= t > > outside (in contrast, e.g., to the case where the regexp is a > > disjunction and you only want to anchor one of the disjuncts). > >=20 > > > How would I print \\` in a docstring ? > >=20 > > You have to escape the "`": \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\=3D` (not \\=3D\\`). > >=20 > > Steve Berman >=20 > I also have to handle the case of " LABEL [-] " with a different regex, s= o I can > distinguish between " [-] LABEL " and " LABEL [-] ". In the latter case I want to match [-] at the end with any trailing spaces.