From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:05:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzy9mo14.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3757.1170107259.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> . matches any character except a newline character.
>> [^\n] matches any character.
>
> Oops. I should have said \(.\|\n\). In Lisp, that's \\(.\\|\n\\).
> Asleep at the wheel...
Not exactly. It's:
\(.\|
\)
(if you must enter it in the minibuffer for example, typing C-q C-j to
insert the newline), or the result of evaluating: "\\(.\\|\n\\)" (if
you type it in an elisp program).
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not
want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein
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2007-01-29 23:05 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2007-01-29 23:52 ` how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines Drew Adams
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2007-01-29 21:26 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-01-29 21:01 Michael Chen
2007-01-29 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-29 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 21:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 22:11 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3755.1170105424.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:00 ` Mark Elston
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