From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp on emacs how to... Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:24:51 +0800 Message-ID: <87oauzlpd8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87wq9p62se.fsf@gmail.com> <941334fe-5c17-4777-aa91-312533ae0500@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409559681 17046 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2014 08:21:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:21:21 +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 Sep 01 10:21:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMrN-0001ni-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:21:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMrN-0007Hl-3I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56211) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMqz-0007D4-Dy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMqq-0006V1-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMqp-0006Um-UW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:20:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMqn-0001Sx-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:20:33 +0200 Original-Received: from 111.197.154.252 ([111.197.154.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:20:33 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 111.197.154.252 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:20:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 111.197.154.252 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EQewLu1Q82Gt79fruoooA6xaocY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99551 Archived-At: renato.pontefice@gmail.com writes: > Il giorno domenica 31 agosto 2014 00:39:00 UTC+2, Thorsten Jolitz ha scritto: >> Thorsten Jolitz writes: >> >> >> >> > This might give some false positives, but not miss any tags: >> >> > >> >> > "\\[-[^^\000]+?-]" >> >> >> >> Ups, this should actually be: >> >> >> >> "\\[-[^\000]+?-]" >> >> >> >> -- >> >> cheers, >> >> Thorsten > > It doesen't work :-( > > can you try to explain me what kin of search try to do this expression? In cases like this, regexp-builder can often be useful. Go to the buffer containing your RTF text, M-x regexp-builder, and then start building your regexp incrementally. Many times this is enough to show you what was wrong with the original one.