From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex is not being as "hungry" as it is supposed to
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:44:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin5F+ynQN4zN_goBaTpnB0Go58=akTuJS=L0hLR@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5BBB6E.7020801@easy-emacs.de>
On 6 August 2010 00:36, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
>
> BTW, as running into difficulties with regexps is common:
> quite often helps ancoring it
>
> ^\(.+ \)[0-9]+ =
>
> \1
>
> circumvents the bug
>
Thank you for this suggestion! :) Whenever working with sed I usually
do that. I guess its good practice when using regexps interactively in
emacs too.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-07 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 1:37 Regex is not being as "hungry" as it is supposed to suvayu ali
2010-08-06 4:04 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-08-06 6:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-06 6:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-08-06 7:03 ` suvayu ali
2010-08-06 7:36 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-07 0:44 ` suvayu ali [this message]
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