From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why are RegExps never working? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:15:19 +0100 Message-ID: <473827B7.5020906@gmail.com> References: <87lk94oozv.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> <87abpkolme.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> <66BB130D-350E-44AF-AA95-23572B99AAD4@Web.DE> <876407u6sc.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194862565 16146 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2007 10:16:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sven Bretfeld Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 11:16:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IrWKm-0000I9-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:16:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrWKa-0003fh-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrWKE-0003fY-VX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrWKC-0003eK-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrWKC-0003e0-B6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrWKC-0005rD-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:60179 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IrWK8-00088j-3F; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:15:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <876407u6sc.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071111-1, 2007-11-11), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IrWK8-00088j-3F. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IrWK8-00088j-3F 9fa34ccbf30e137dd856354011286b4a X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49156 Archived-At: Sven Bretfeld wrote: > Hi Harald > > Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > >> If you're having a hard time learning how regexps work, then >> regex-tool seems like a great learning aid: >> >> ftp://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/regex-tool.el >> >> I've only tried it for a couple of minutes, but it looks really >> useful. > > Thank you for the suggestion. I've installed regex-tool and I have the > impression that it's a good way to become familiar with the topic. I have found the rx function in Emacs 22 useful when writing elisp code that uses regexps. It makes the regexps much easier to read IMO. You can also use that to learn how regexp.