From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mirko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to re-search for ^"*Nanotechnology*"$ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:50:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1189083004.314252.238090@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1188995542.671074.138780@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <1189006029.472999.68600@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189086038 27406 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 13:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 15:40:39 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 1ITHaw-0002me-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITHau-0002tk-RM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.218.238.20 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1189083004 12602 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2007 12:50:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:50:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.218.238.20; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151758 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:47282 Archived-At: On Sep 5, 5:41 pm, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "Mirko" == Mirko writes: > > Mirko> I am doing OK now without rx ... > > You just _think_ you are. > > Seriously, I think "rx" is one of the best little-known features of > Emacs; _almost_ any regular expression can be written _much_ more > clearly with it. One caveat, though, is that the version in Emacs 22 > has lots more bells and whistles than the version in Emacs 21, so if > portability is important to you, limit yourself to the Emacs 21 > features (which are _still_ a huge improvement over writing them > "raw"). > > -- > Keaton, Chaplin, Garbo - let them now make room for Gromit. > A. O. Scott, in The New York Times Well, what peaked my attention was the "_much_ more clearly" bit.I will take a look at it then. Mirko