Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz"

[rasmith@tamu.edu]

From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
Subject: Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz"
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:04 +0200

> It now works okay in the RE-Builder for me too, but not in the mode I
> have written. I imagine the REs for different parts of the language are
> getting in the way of each other somewhere. I will try removing some
> until I get something that works and go on from there...
> 

My guess is that there's some problem with escaping special characters
in the context in which you're using it.  As an example of what I
mean, you're probably aware that in query-replace-regexp, you need to
enter "(" and ")"as "\(" and "\)" if they're intended as regexp
subexpression delimiters rather than literal parentheses.  

So, where are you using it?