Giles Chamberlin <giles.chamberlin@tandberg.net> writes:

> [snip] regex to match {foo} and {\nfoo\n}
>
> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> Does this (between the "")
>>
>> "{[^}]*}"
>>
>> work for you?  
>
> That works but I' don't understand why given that {.*} fails.  Any
> enlightenment gratefully received!

This is because of the following (from M-x info m elisp):

`.' (Period)
     is a special character that matches any single character except a
     newline.

`[^ ... ]'
     A complemented character alternative can match a newline, unless
     newline is mentioned as one of the characters not to match.  This
     is in contrast to the handling of regexps in programs such as
     `grep'.

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