From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: <877g75p6o8.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lhvlfjz4.fsf@yahoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396617961 30666 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2014 13:26:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 13:26:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 15:25:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WW480-0002XK-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:25:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WW47z-0006gn-LQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WW47O-0006O4-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WW47H-0001qp-15 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WW47G-0001nX-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WW47F-0001rA-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:25:05 +0200 Original-Received: from g231232070.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.232.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:25:05 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231232070.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:25:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231232070.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9O16sbR9OqCTh+UZ7zsCg2ztLkg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96983 Archived-At: Angus Comber writes: > (highlight-regexp "aPDU[^^@]+[\}]$" (quote hi-yellow)) > I am still a little puzzled though because I have multiple closing braces > followed by linefeeed in the aPDU's. But anyway, it works! Probably because + is greedy and looks for the longest possible match. You could check if it still works with non-greedy +?. -- cheers, Thorsten