From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:03:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: 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 1223734005 3655 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2008 14:06:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:06:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Xah To: "Nikolaj Schumacher" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 16:07:42 2008 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 1Kof5h-0007G4-6D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:05:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kof4c-0003ae-Nj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kof4N-0003Yv-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kof4M-0003XT-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41361 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kof4M-0003XM-2t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:58214) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kof4L-0007v8-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:03:45 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so710720fgb.30 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:03:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=O/6BidWg3RgVkpzRYevr9LwSblAAu7HjdLMbsGwMeDE=; b=fosCSFnphodMZwQaKytziz+K9rp7iYRgGW9nDevmkVIGrJE+g3FNIWCJy8q7g9NfbF EsqopldohcCc3Dvt5oCsrYzJgiITEBawpYTgANgUQ0DZeRnFuGQ1KhkjF05aa2EqtSfk ha73hNN2J7csknMTgrj/hAnneHDfRhGoaUhe4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=VDrb+pYgJdwjjsTaYukL/sjVHY/kU3z5XVjHYDtV86ss4vyKiPIeia37iC3vbcP5qH EY8IPkIa6fia7zZ/8ksZ0nYamnnbz8jV4oDCOQyngCk6reX558XjKRQK0aIAdfa7TElT kcO0M+KBh1N9YdJx07HWRv7MJG7hUNjlv3PMc= Original-Received: by 10.86.63.19 with SMTP id l19mr2839268fga.60.1223733824931; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.65.3 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:03:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:58698 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > "Lennart Borgman" wrote: > >>>> But one thing I think would be useful is to be able to use numbers for >>>> the PAREN argument to get an explicitly numbered regexp group back. >>> >>> Is it possible to modify the numbering at all? If so, how? >> >> See (info "(elisp) Regexp Backslash") >> >> `\(?NUM: ... \)' >> is the "explicitly numbered group" construct. > > I was actually looking at the same info page when writing. I assume > this an Emacs 23 feature, then. Yes, forgot to say that.