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From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:00:34 -0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13rjaqqsf5l1e44@news.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yoij7ih2a0au.fsf@remote2.student.chalmers.se

Johan Bockgård wrote:
 
>> "\\(" adds the opening parenthesis as a word boundary.
> 
> That doesn't make sense.
 IOWS, I'm wrong? Is "\\(" a meta character?
 Is it not properly escaped.
 
> M-x re-builder or
> regex-tool.el
Thanks
 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-18  4:27 Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting Tim Johnson
2008-02-18 12:58 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-18 16:00   ` Tim Johnson [this message]
2008-02-18 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 19:23   ` Tim Johnson
2008-02-20 19:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20 20:37       ` Tim Johnson

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