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From: Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu>
Subject: Re: Finding C style comments using isearch-forward-regexp
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:48:52 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302241347210.19996-100000@klaatu.canisius.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5lu1exr8zb.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>

On 21 Feb 2003, Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> wrote:

> > The regexp /*[^\(*/\)]*/ will find C comments in a non-greedy fashion.
> > Does this help your stack problems?
> 
> It will find any comment which has no *, no /, no (, no ), and no \ in
> its text.  I don't think that's quite what you wanted, so I presume
> you slightly misunderstand the way [...] works.  Check out the
> manual again.
> 

Try: /\*[^*]*\*+\([^/*][^*]*\*+\)*/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2229.1045836305.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-21 14:42 ` Finding C style comments using isearch-forward-regexp Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-24 18:48   ` Kevin Dziulko [this message]
2003-02-19 13:40 Timur Aydin
2003-02-19 14:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-19 17:03   ` Timur Aydin
2003-02-19 19:46     ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-20  7:19       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-20 20:35         ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-20 21:25           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-20 23:52             ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-21 14:00             ` Kevin Dziulko
2003-02-19 19:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-19 19:49   ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>

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