Re: regexp problem

[Þorne <ego111@gmail.com>]

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> You can match groups:
>
> a\(b\)c
>
> so the match number 0 is the whole regexp: abc
> but the match number 1 is only b

Sorry to be dense, but do you mean something like this:

(search-forward-regexp "a\\(b\\)c\\0")

because i can't get anything like it to work.  I don't really follow
the documentation for the \<digit> construct in regexps at all...

In fact the code above finds a string that looks like `abc0' instead of
just `b'.

Specifically i am trying to make a regexp for define-generic-mode to
colorize the string`*' but only if it is in a string that looks like
`(*)'.  But not colorize the surrounding parens.