From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Negate a regexp Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:41:07 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87bpdff7d8.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <8282B0BC46B0423AA171693F27FF1D22@us.oracle.com> <877ho3tjix.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271713541 5811 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2010 21:45:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:45:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 19 23:45:40 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3yme-00034m-4l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:45:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3ymd-0002aV-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O3ym9-0002ZX-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54118 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3ym8-0002Yr-GS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3ym6-0003kE-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3ym6-0003jr-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3ym1-0002kJ-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:44:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 202.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:44:57 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 202.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:44:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHBARgJRFPS0WbMBTC TSG/uJs0yyVHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABpUlE QVQ4y3VTQXKDMAyUnD7AwvQOhtxj5N4LFh9ow/+/UtlpM0BczWSS0Wola7UBeEb3+3kJ/5p9ZLz3 UI0n0J0Y4K/lh1nG24FhlJOR2LdSKtpV5gfi/Zd+NdaJBbB4D5N0JnfUIVp6obZURkJwS2a8b9uX AkgxA5gCEcknAH1s2z0DPooWmjGKcJR+HNZt+9bm0GtGRycRuZGs98Ffr02vABWGopIAhmXmxnQN BwBXZjgFLHRoqbfeYxCLWqsjLyKhbEHW+A5nEs699Q2O80ALrgHTmUTy6P0MnKyKQpKHpoNWokxs F0D5VegvWmEozyE6nuMiS98mWzlUQ9bW8qYfqOaFtzWlYCqGeIs6HEyl08jkrxUG9MF5ipXpOOpd ZMoXPPVSLWJiiwNNB+eRSyxJZmQKcacikgucnCRiHuJOLmyYJRDPwOqAvY4pA+Wy+VS8G26BAsdb Ph2Hw7ORy/H0IOG0TnaM8Cp0XrFYyU0v2z8AqkifPVbLZ0qo/gsRg60C7p+8Ov9jrUIxFde+jnAq X42hyp/c+ZcnVyUYBarrqZt3+R8450png3cWKgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAwOC0wNS0z MVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMK3VBDcAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMDctMTAtMjhUMTc6MDg6 NDgrMDE6MDDLdIcLAAAAEXRFWHRqcGVnOmNvbG9yc3BhY2UAMix1VZ8AAAAgdEVYdGpwZWc6c2Ft cGxpbmctZmFjdG9yADJ4MiwxeDEsMXgxSfqmtAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cajq+wT9lFDgLFoL5n0CsJC+8jk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72763 Archived-At: Leo writes: > On 2010-04-19 18:54 +0100, Thierry Volpiatto wrote: >> It will return \\coor because \ have to be escaped. >> >> (save-excursion (when (looking-back "^\\(\\\\[a-z]*\\)") (match-string 0))) >> >> It match on 1 also. > > This is a special case for the special example in my previous post. > > What about co\or ? It is still text contains word or symbol or \ (i.e. > \sw \s_ or \s\). Try to use the greedy arg: try matching \co\o_r-!- (when (looking-back "\\([\\\\a-z_]*\\)" nil 'greedy) (match-string-no-properties 0)) ==> "\\co\\o_r" -- Thierry Volpiatto Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/