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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are RegExps never working?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:13:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pryd8qon.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3482.1194997914.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:51:27 +0100, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> wrote:
> It's partly working. But not with all major modes. [...]
>  -- Syntax class: whitespace character
>      "Whitespace characters" (designated by ` ' or `-') separate
>      symbols and words from each other.  Typically, whitespace
>      characters have no other syntactic significance, and multiple
>      whitespace characters are syntactically equivalent to a single
>      one.  Space, tab, newline and formfeed are classified as
>      whitespace in almost all major modes.
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Obviously not in the LaTeX major mode. It's a pity. Would have been a
> nice shortcut.

Ah!  That's what was going on.  Nice catch :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-11 14:06 Why are RegExps never working? Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-11 14:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-11 15:19   ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-11 15:52     ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-11 23:24       ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-12  9:39         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-12  9:53           ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3307.1194823515.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-12  8:21         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-11-12  9:55           ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-12 10:15             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 15:10               ` Drew Adams
2007-11-12 16:01                 ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found]           ` <mailman.3326.1194861370.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-12 13:04             ` Richard G Riley
2007-11-12 18:54               ` Drew Adams
2007-11-13  8:55           ` Tim X
2007-11-13 13:54             ` Richard G Riley
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3268.1194797266.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-12 23:53       ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-13 15:49         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-13 16:37           ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-13 23:51             ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-14  9:55               ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-14 17:52                 ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found]             ` <mailman.3482.1194997914.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-14  3:13               ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2007-11-14  9:22         ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-16  5:15           ` Tim X
2007-11-16 10:17             ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-11 15:21 ` Bastien
2007-11-11 14:38   ` Sven Bretfeld

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