From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How to grok a complicated regex?
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:16:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5503EE61.4090807@gmx.at> (raw)
> so I have this monstrosity [note: I know, there are much worse ones,
> too!]:
>
> "\\`\\(?:\\\\[([]\\|\\$+\\)?\\(.*?\\)\\(?:\\\\[])]\\|\\$+\\)?\\'"
>
> (it's in the org-latex--script-size function in ox-latex.el, if you're
> curious).
>
> I'm not asking “what does this match” – I can read it myself. But it
> comes with a considerable effort. Are you aware of any tools that might
> help to understand such regexen?
You might want to try regexp-lock.el which you can find here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00688.html
Eventually it should also appear on ELPA but I have to polish up some
things first.
Sincerely, martin
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2015-03-13 22:46 ` How to grok a complicated regex? Emanuel Berg
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2015-03-14 0:12 ` Rasmus
2015-03-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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2015-03-20 1:05 ` Emanuel Berg
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