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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Wang Lei'" <wanglei.198112@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: What does (looking-at "\\>") mean?
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:52:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003401c97f0d$4b6e44f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0a0cf140901250738g13066527p12fa7d1f72c9b183@mail.gmail.com>

>   (looking-at "\\>")
> 
> But, I can't figure out what this "\\>" means.
> Could someone give me a explanation ?

Ask Emacs. Emacs will give you an explanation.
`C-h f looking-at' tells you: 

,----
| Return t if text after point matches regular expression REGEXP.
| This function modifies the match data that `match-beginning',
| `match-end' and `match-data' access; save and restore the match
| data if you want to preserve them.
`----

IOW, (looking-at "\\>") returns t if the text following the cursor matches the
regexp "\\>".

Now you might want to ask Emacs about regexps...





  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-25 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-25 15:38 What does (looking-at "\\>") mean? Wang Lei
2009-01-25 16:52 ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.5745.1232899168.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-25 20:07 ` weber
2009-01-26  0:51   ` Wang Lei
2009-01-26  7:00     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-01-27  2:20       ` Wang Lei

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