From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: looking-at function behaviour
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:54:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTil2dg3doDhJGtG9mM8Zsg20jz2vukOMVb4MA7A_@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1typg9kpg.fsf@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't understand how I should use the looking-at function, from what I
>>> see in the doc is not what I see happening.
>>
>> looking-at takes a regexp as argument. Is not that clear from the doc
>> (i.e. describe-function)?
>>
>> You probably want to use char-after instead here.
>
> Uhm no it looks like that char-after is not caring about the end of
> line...
Maybe i am just confusing you. Both looking-at and char-after can be
used, but I guess you have to be more careful since it did not do what
you expected.
> But maybe I should change my definition, since it's a string not a char
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defconst default-closing-char ";"
> "default closing char, change in newline-force-close-alist if needed")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Or maybe I can just need something "string"->"regexp" corresponding,
> which is even better
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-06 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-06 14:59 looking-at function behaviour Andrea Crotti
2010-06-06 15:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-06 16:42 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-06-06 16:54 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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