Re: I need help with a regular expression

[Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>]

José A. Romero L. <escherdragon@gmail.com> writes:

>> thinking about something like:
>>     "^[^;]+(defun "
>>
>> But that does not work. It marks the following completely, instead of
>> the three at its own:
>>     (defun a () (message "a"))
>>     (defun b () (message "b"))
>>     (defun c () (message "c"))
>>
>> Why is this? And how can I make a regular expression that does what I
>> want?
>
> Because  emacs  regular expressions are by default multi-line? All in
> all an emacs buffer is just a very long stream of characters, so this
> approach makes sense, I guess.
>
> Try this instead: "^[^;\n]*(defun " - and remember: regexp-builder is
> your friend ;-)

I thought I tried that, but properly not, otherwise I should not have
asked this question. Thanks.

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