From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Easy regexp issue Date: 22 Jan 2007 11:26:22 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169493981.553162.162930@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1169145159.761299.289970@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169213390.880236.176320@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169494852 13237 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 19:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 20:40:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H951u-0006Mn-Ak for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H951t-0005Ip-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.213 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169493995 31719 127.0.0.1 (22 Jan 2007 19:26:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:26:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1169213390.880236.176320@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.213; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144926 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:40530 Archived-At: HS wrote: > Thanks everyone! The problem was solved! > I wanted it for this: For future reference, when messing with this problem: The function "princ" is useful, it prints things without lisp syntax around them. So, if you do (princ foo) you see what string a function will recieve when sent the string foo. Therefore, you can write foo in lisp syntax and see what it means. For example (princ "\\\\\\") =>\\\