From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Regexp matching whitespace including newline Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221482453 18824 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2008 12:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 14:41:49 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 1KfDOe-000722-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfDNd-0001ZZ-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221479001 31741 127.0.0.1 (15 Sep 2008 11:43:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 netcache (NetCache NetApp/6.1.1RC1) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162278 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:57619 Archived-At: Is there a more compact regexp for specifying whitespace including newlines other than: (re-search-forward (concat "\\(" "\\s-" "\\|" "\n" "\\)*")) I always use concat() to increase readability of my code. /Nordl=F6w