From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: suvayu ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with regexp Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:18:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87y6lmtnbx.fsf@galatea.local> <20091202051626.GA19970@tomas> <87pr6xnca1.fsf@fh-trier.de> 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 1259738456 6901 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2009 07:20:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andreas Politz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 02 08:20:49 2009 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 1NFjW4-0005Ef-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:20:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35940 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFjW4-0001Ga-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFjUV-0000bp-6n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFjUP-0000ZR-ID for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45602 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFjUP-0000ZL-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f183.google.com ([209.85.212.183]:54376) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFjUP-0003Fq-7V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so2257224vws.25 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:19:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nWpo9w7YEwfHfvl7Px4+c4ZwCIFf4by6c6LmgEU+jHM=; b=DmeqTCJd4LhFTn8JSgvEzrUQltoJgFGJWM0awZTGsHJEtrtSc5zHv5b1TkRh3doDn8 kV5pmBB/jo21imbGEL6xD4hfOxduuh/unLaaTTFk5EPHb1pFUf5MeX6HKiQMUyTyOLeQ AvgpsN1NJCdIPvRsh1/l5BGxc4bW+Z2C+YX+g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=dlrjiTerTSsU5SU+UxyGDmw8WLq4lPidlvIx6OyPAaMHkQ4DvyNJ5cLVdnNm/4zci9 +3LbAw6gsHb4Hx8XN6X0Il8V7vyPTbv9Mahj2zd3Wg6arqipWGmrhld9HLTR3+uy+1du tECt96Nbgv5bYswIQS8+x0IiE2iQyfgOAjLqs= Original-Received: by 10.220.123.16 with SMTP id n16mr8186858vcr.111.1259738344081; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:19:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87pr6xnca1.fsf@fh-trier.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8e48314d2f93acaf 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:70307 Archived-At: 2009/12/1 Andreas Politz : > Things I (won't) miss most: > > - extreme backslasheritis > - no short aliases for important constructs : > =A0digits,symbol-constituents,newline,space > - no zero-width matches ; look(ahead|behind) > I am completely confounded by regexps, correct me if I am wrong but I think some of those exists. e.g. [[:digit:]] for [0-9] or [[:alnum:]] for [0-9a-zA-Z] --=20 Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.