From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz"
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:04:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bd8ea78-624d-48f5-a229-af3583a6bf5d@z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4.1285942809.2643.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Oct 1, 6:59 pm, "Erik L. Arneson" <dyb...@lnouv.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Tim Visher wrote:
> > Don't really understand what's going on. I type the following into
> > scratch and use `M-x regex-builder` and it works exactly as I believe
> > you want it to.
>
> I love this group! I didn't even know about `regexp-builder', and now
> I'm crazy about it. Thank you.
>
> Holy crap, that function is going to make my life easier.
Thats the %^%*($$@ problem with emacs -- you are always at about 5% of
what you could be doing if only...
(at least thats where I am after 20 years use :-) )
In this particular case you may find John Wiegley's version
http://www.newartisans.com/2007/10/a-regular-expression-ide-for-emacs.html
more useful if for example you want to hack out a perl regexp.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-01 12:10 Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz" Gary
2010-10-01 12:18 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-10-01 13:45 ` Gary
2010-10-01 15:23 ` rasmith
2010-10-05 6:47 ` Gary
2010-10-01 12:48 ` Tyler Smith
2010-10-01 13:42 ` Gary
2010-10-01 12:58 ` Tim Visher
2010-10-01 13:59 ` Erik L. Arneson
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1285942809.2643.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-01 16:04 ` rustom [this message]
[not found] <mailman.0.1285935054.30433.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-01 12:20 ` Marc Mientki
2010-10-01 12:26 ` David Kastrup
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