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: Go to a Line Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:38:34 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E83614A.2080404@yahoo.com> References: <84fzpaw9bc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lllz29kry.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87znnihsgx.fsf@server.crasseux.com> <5l8yv29c66.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87u1dp1j2c.fsf@juliva.com> <5lvfy49476.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> 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 1048798033 8551 80.91.224.249 (27 Mar 2003 20:47:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 21:47:11 2003 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 18yeHH-0002Dh-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:47:11 +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 18yeBG-0007r4-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:40:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!opentransit.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1048797504 324642 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:111455 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:7955 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7955 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>How do you search for numbers in a file? > > The usual way: `123' matches both the string `123' and the line 123. > The only time when it's inconvenient is when you're looking for line 123 and > the buffer contains heaps of matches for the string `123'. Hmmm, how about patching regex.c instead to match a new regular expression: \#N would match the empty string anywhere on line N -- Kevin Rodgers