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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Pascal Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:52:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICIEMHDKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzy9mo14.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>

>    > \(.\|\n\). In Lisp, that's \\(.\\|\n\\).
>
> Not exactly.  It's: \(.\|
> \)
>
> (if you must enter it in the minibuffer for example, typing C-q C-j to
> insert the newline),

That's what I meant by "Interactively, use C-q C-j to insert a newline
character itself in the regexp, in place of \n."

> or the result of evaluating: "\\(.\\|\n\\)" (if
> you type it in an elisp program).

That's what I meant by "In Lisp, that's \\(.\\|\n\\)."

;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-29 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3757.1170107259.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:05 ` how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines Pascal Bourguignon
2007-01-29 23:52   ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3753.1170104495.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 21:26 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-01-29 21:01 Michael Chen
2007-01-29 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-29 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 21:47   ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 22:11 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.3755.1170105424.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:00   ` Mark Elston

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