From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lisp function to search-forward for lines with same indent Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:42:31 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1156753011.964177.189840@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156880704 14307 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 19:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 21:45:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GI9Vq-0004tV-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GI9Vq-0006gE-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GI9Uv-0006LL-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GI9Uu-0006KW-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GI9Ut-0006KR-Q5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:43:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GI9e8-0001gS-GX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GI9Ug-0004cv-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:43:30 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:43:30 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:43:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <1156753011.964177.189840@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 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:37043 Archived-At: Badari Kakumani wrote: > folks, > > i have a large call-tree hierarchy represented as indented lines shown > below: > > File::Spec::Functions::__ANON__ x 1 0.00s = (0.00 + 0.00)s > File::Spec::Unix::catfile x 1 0.00s = (0.00 + 0.00)s > File::Spec::Unix::canonpath x 1 0.00s > File::Spec::Unix::catdir x 1 0.00s = (0.00 + 0.00)s > File::Spec::Unix::canonpath x 1 0.00s > at::obj::BEGIN x 14 19.07s = (0.12 + 18.95)s > > if my cursor is positioned at the first line shown in the above output, > i want to develop a function such that it finds the last-line > in the output shown -- a line with exactly two-spaces in the beginning > and then a non-space-charcter. > > i want this to work for any other lines with a differing starting > indentation. > > any clues on how to go about developing this lisp function or > any pointers to existing functions that do this will help. > > to my surprise, in emacs, when i press: > Esc Ctr-s ^ Space \sw > emacs is matching all lines that start with any number of spaces > (instead of matching lines with exactly one-space in the beginning > of line and a non-space character). not sure why it is behaving this > way. Here's what I came up with: (defun next-line-same-indentation () "Move point to the next line with the same indentation as the current line." (interactive) (let ((indentation (save-excursion (buffer-substring (progn (beginning-of-line) (point)) (1- (re-search-forward "\\S ")))))) (re-search-forward (concat "^" (regexp-quote indentation) "\\S ")) (backward-char))) -- Kevin