From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Regexp to match any character, including newline?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:20:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16257.9657.880756.550500@mail.eng.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wkisn4mzkx.fsf@TheWorld.com>
>>>>> "JF" == Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com> writes:
JF> It is sometimes a nuisance that "." in a regexp does not match
JF> newlines. For example, I want a regexp for text in parentheses that
JF> contains the word "and" followed (anywhere) by a date.
JF> (.+ and .+ [1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9].+)
What about something like:
\(.*[\n]\)
;; Warning, can cause regexp stack overflow.
font-lock has should font-lock-multiline (HOW????) since Emacs 21
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-06 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-04 22:02 Regexp to match any character, including newline? Joe Fineman
2003-10-04 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-04 22:59 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-05 7:09 ` Martin Stone Davis
[not found] ` <mailman.1130.1065337789.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-05 20:35 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-05 21:45 ` Joe Fineman
2003-10-06 8:20 ` Gian Uberto Lauri [this message]
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