From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs version and LISP interpretation Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:43:27 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20887d97-75a1-4316-ba77-9105d5a029a0@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291959884 23077 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 05:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:44:44 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 06:44:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQvmX-0003rz-GI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:44:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQvmW-0006tl-VH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45437 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQvle-0006rA-8t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:43:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQvld-00074H-8u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:43:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:52985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQvlc-000749-Th for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:43:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oBA5hcVR032291 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:43:39 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oBA5hYDv025625; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:43:38 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 862554081291959808; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:43:28 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.225.165) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:43:27 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcuYJ5RV1C1HT+XVTEK4fju0K4E8QAAATWRg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77370 Archived-At: > > So the answer is that you need to change (insert ?\s) to > > (insert ?\s ). That is, leave at least one space after the \s. > > No, ?\s is new, so ?\s won't work even if you add a space after it. > The old syntax is ?\ (where the space after the backslash is > important). Right, my bad; good catch. What you say is what I meant to say: change (insert ?\s) to (insert ?\ ), where, as you point out, the space is important. (I was no doubt confusing the SPC char syntax with the regexp syntax for matching a whitespace char, which is `\s ' or `\s-'.)