From: gnuist007@hotmail.com (gnuist)
Subject: Re: Q: How to copy a string in a text into a variable?
Date: 18 Sep 2002 11:07:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e8ebeb2.0209181007.206be25b@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wzi4rcqfdcq.fsf@melbourne.laas.fr
Eric Marsden <emarsden@laas.fr> wrote in message
> the buffer-substring function allows you to access the characters
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> between certain positions in a buffer
This was what I am looking for. But you have a number of pearls or
possibly bugs that I could not verify. Specifically, I am interested in a
dissection of the regular expression
> (when (looking-at "[A-Z]\\{3\\}[0-9]+")
and the conundrum is in \\{3\\}, a construct, which has no reference in
the info page on emacs regular expressions.
You may as well explain the wisdom in the use of
(save-excursion ; ???
(save-match-data ; ???
which I fail to see despite seeing description on them.
Thanks a lot!!!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-18 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-16 3:54 Q: How to copy a string in a text into a variable? gnuist
2002-09-16 10:17 ` Eric Marsden
2002-09-18 18:07 ` gnuist [this message]
2002-09-19 11:27 ` Eric Marsden
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