From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using re-builder Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:08:56 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <316044c2.0406170945.43c72674@posting.google.com> <316044c2.0406180635.4b91e594@posting.google.com> <40D312AC.4070208@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088536817 21316 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:20:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfO9K-0005ql-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOB0-0002yu-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:21:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s02.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pbXSScMYKW+mab5Bd9XdgoADxGI= Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.18.253.35 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net Original-X-Trace: attbi_s02 1087578536 24.18.253.35 (Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:08:56 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:08:56 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123832 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19191 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19191 Kevin Rodgers writes: >Phil_C wrote: > > Thanks, that just about does it - except the beginning and ending > > quotes are still there. Still, that's much better than it was before, > > since now I don't have to go through the whole regex deleting "\"s. > That's really strange --- I'm not getting the quotes; in fact, I first tried (buffer-substring (1+ (point-min)) (1- (point-max))) thinking it would trim the quotes, and I lost the first and last chars of the RE. Wierd. >Well, you could either replace "\\`\"" and "\"\\'" with "", or avoid >inserting them in the first place: > >(let ((regexp (reb-target-binding reb-regexp))) > (insert (substring regexp 1 (1- (length regexp))))) > >Another approach would be to leave the regexp string in the kill ring, >but define a new command to yank the regexp itself into the minibuffer. That's a great idea, but I think it would require a global keybinding to that new command to be really useful, since you never know where you're going to want to yank the RE. > >And instead of using replace-string to replace "\\\\" with "\\", you >might be able to get the lisp reader to do it for you (e.g. with >make-symbol). Alas, that's deeper in the lisp pool than I can swim. -- Mike Slass