From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266543700 17810 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2010 01:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:41:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 02:41:38 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiHs9-0001h8-7B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38983 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiHs8-0001SF-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:41:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1266541171 14388 166.84.1.2 (19 Feb 2010 00:59:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:59:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176874 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:71941 Archived-At: In article , Tyler Smith wrote: >dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > >> Subj: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. >> Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? >> >> >> Please, someone, make an ascii or html table or even plain text >> list of all these neat "new" non-standard ops that perl and >> even php and ruby etc seem to have now, comparing them >> to what Emacs has or don't have. > >I don't understand your question. Emacs' regexps facilities are >explained in the manual, (info "(emacs)Regexps") . You will find on that >page a link to further details for programmers. I don't know what new >non-standard ops perl and php and ruby have, ... Well, just get "Mastering Regular Expressions", by Jeffrey Friedl, 2nd edition -- it'll blow you away. The title maybe should have been Everything you wanted to know about regular expressions, but were afraid to ask. Plus a lot of stuff mayve you never did want to know, too. On regexps, this book is THE BIBLE! Next time in a bookstore and you spy one, have a look. Ten to one you'll buy the thing. David