From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Allowing spaces in the regexp for outlines Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:59:49 +0100 Message-ID: <878r2c41tm.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87frwk4rhp.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22700"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PdN88J/P0nEry8Pi2ufBtEPwoY4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 21 21:49:59 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 1rnPMM-0005fa-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:49:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rnPLZ-0002CU-Pm; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rnAX6-0002az-2j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 01:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rnAX4-0003P2-64 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 01:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rnAX1-00019V-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:59:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:49:07 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146152 Archived-At: Heime wrote: >> You can also use `comment-start' instead of hardcoding ';', >> and use explicit repitition instead of hardcoding 3 - see >> >> (info "(elisp) Regexp Backslash") >> >> - and then also not hardcode the 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s in pairs >> but inserting them as integers into the string. >> >> So yes, you can improve a lot! And spend all weekend on it. > > This is not about improving existing functionality It is about improving your skills? > bet allowing aty number of spaces between ;;; and H. I already wrote, but it didn't appear, For oh to arbitrary repetition, see * described here (info "(elisp) Regexp Special") For whitespace, see [:blank:] here. (info "(elisp) Char Classes") Or just use it the way you have it, hardcoded whitespace, which is also fine. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal