From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line-spanning regexp Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:13:35 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E25C0EF.2030903@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042661693 12674 80.91.224.249 (15 Jan 2003 20:14:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Ytw4-0003IH-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:14:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YtwZ-0002je-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:15:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042661610 22684252 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108988 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5516 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5516 Bingham, Jay wrote: > On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:47 PM Greg Hill Wrote >> >>"string1[^\n]*[\n]?[^\n]*string2" > > The above pattern for a regexp may NOT work in all circumstances. > Specifically it may not work correctly when used in interactive regular > expression searches (isearch-forward-regexp, C-M-S; > isearch-backward-regexp, C-M-r; search-forward-regexp and > search-backward-regexp). I assumed the presence of the delimiting double quotes was to indicate that he meant a string to be passed to the non-interactive functions and not a key sequence to be typed to the interactive commands. ... > The correct regexp (that does not depend on the presence of an n or \) > to use in interactive searches is (as typed to enter it): > > "string1[^C-qC-j]*[C-qC-j]?[^C-qC-j]*string2" Isn't `[^C-qC-j]' equivalent to `.'? -- Kevin Rodgers