From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help. Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:28:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87lf61ymol.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mtr0889q.fsf@zoho.eu> <87a6n084rz.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21959"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ho7Va80PYsdneqAq14Nc9GRafzk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 20 18:33:00 2021 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 1m5sfy-0005V2-Ra for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:32:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43268 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5sfx-0006UO-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:32:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5sbm-0001DN-I4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5sbl-00030V-0u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5sbi-000Aar-Bx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:28:34 +0200 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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131883 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Another issue: what's the regexp for matching the `^L' in > Emacs. I tried with `^.*\^L$' to filter the > counsel-unicode-char command's results, but nothing > is matched. ^ in the beginning of a regexp means the beginning of a line. (search-forward-regexp "^aaa") ; works aaa (search-forward-regexp "^aaa") ; DNC aaa (search-forward-regexp "^a^aa") ; works a^aa (search-forward-regexp "\\^aaa") ; works ^aaa But to answer your question: (search-forward-regexp " ") -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal