From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp newline issue Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:38:47 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87fypdsa9d.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133412929 9554 80.91.229.2 (1 Dec 2005 04:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 05:55:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhgTZ-000831-7S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhgTY-0002Uf-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:55:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rf/7ALSRBozA3bSAxYw2KueRZac= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.25.91 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1133411927 67.71.25.91 (Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:38:47 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:38:47 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135945 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:31552 Archived-At: > (mapconcat (lambda (char) > (if (memq char '(32 9 10 13)) > "[\040\011\012\015]" > (format "[\040\011\012\015]*%c" char))) > string nil)) Other than to force the reader to try and remember those ASCII codes, is there any reason not use: (mapconcat (lambda (char) (if (memq char '(?\t ?\n ?\r ?\ )) "[\t\n\r ]" (format "[\t\n\r ]*%c" char))) string nil)) -- Stefan