From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regex expression Date: 22 Dec 2006 04:48:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166791728.630760.111710@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> References: <1166790584.269130.11160@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166794847 7882 80.91.229.10 (22 Dec 2006 13:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 22 14:40:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gxkdc-0002O9-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gxkdc-0001g4-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:40:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.208.215.220 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166791734 6656 127.0.0.1 (22 Dec 2006 12:48:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:48:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1166790584.269130.11160@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.208.215.220; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144233 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39838 Archived-At: bcochofel wrote: > I'm trying to match the beginning of all lines that have tab|space > chars and I'm using this: > > ^[ \t]* > > But [ \t]* doesn't match spaces or tabs, matchs spaces and letter t... > Am I missing something? Depends on if you're typing in the regexp interactively or coding a routine to be loaded. In a file, you're above syntax should work. If you're responding to an interactive prompt then you don't use \t syntax (nor do you need to double \\ when you want to search for \). Use C-q C-i or C-q C-TAB to insert an actual tab character.