From: tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp help
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:04:13 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk34imma.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10741.1208961303.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm looking at outline mode.
>
> I see outline-regexp is set to:
> Its value is "[*\f]+"
>
> Looking in emacs info, I see no reference to '\f'. What is it?
It's an escape character indicating a 'formfeed'.
>
> Looking at a buffer in C-mode, I see:
> Its value is "[^#\n^M]"
>
> I don't recognize the '#', what does this mean?
>
Sometimes a hash is just a hash. I'm not sure what the context is here,
but maybe it has something to do with recognising #include and #define
in c code.
HTH,
Tyler
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2008-04-23 15:59 ` regexp help Johan Bockgård
2008-04-23 16:04 ` tyler [this message]
2008-04-23 14:34 Neal Becker
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