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: emacs regexp question Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:30:32 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDE2CB8.3040507@yahoo.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 1054748167 4757 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 17:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 19:36:05 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 19NcBB-0001EP-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:36:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NcBM-0008Nu-Di for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:36:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054747835 11078598 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:114117 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:10611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10611 gmayer@cs.bgu.ac.il wrote: > - How should I ask for the first occurrence of two blank lines? interactively: ^ C-q C-j C-q C-j programmatically: "^\n\n" > - How should I ask for the first occurrence of N blank lines for some fixed, > yet large, N. I think emacs uses ^ for the start of the line, though I've > seen some regexp libraries (not for emacs) that use the ^ as a sort of > "exponentiation" symbol for the number of times a string is concatenated. interactively: ^ C-q C-j \{ N \} programmatically: "^\n\\{N\\}" > - How can I search for regexps that have one or more newlines in the middle? interactively: \( .* C-q C-j \)* programmatically: "\\(.*\n\\)*" -- Kevin Rodgers