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: Why are RegExps never working? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:10:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <473827B7.5020906@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194880423 12685 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2007 15:13:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:13:43 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 16:13:44 2007 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 4.50) id 1Irayh-0007Q7-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:13:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrayS-0007yL-DJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:13:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrayB-0007y7-Pd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iray5-0007xQ-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iray4-0007xN-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iray3-0003Kh-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lACFCIp3027688 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:12:19 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lACBAxbd017363 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:12:18 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-223.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3359843871194880227; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:10:27 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <473827B7.5020906@gmail.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:49158 Archived-At: > >> If you're having a hard time learning how regexps work, then > >> regex-tool seems like a great learning aid: > >> > >> ftp://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/regex-tool.el > >> > >> I've only tried it for a couple of minutes, but it looks really > >> useful. > > > > Thank you for the suggestion. I've installed regex-tool and I have the > > impression that it's a good way to become familiar with the topic. > > I have found the rx function in Emacs 22 useful when writing elisp code > that uses regexps. It makes the regexps much easier to read IMO. You can > also use that to learn how regexp. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryRegexp