From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:26:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g75p6o8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAtGUhXzdahxjDoOEjeL54XeonmsxPg8rATG=P8mRy0NUro1GQ@mail.gmail.com
Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
> (highlight-regexp "aPDU[^^@]+[\}]$" (quote hi-yellow))
> I am still a little puzzled though because I have multiple closing braces
> followed by linefeeed in the aPDU's. But anyway, it works!
Probably because + is greedy and looks for the longest possible
match. You could check if it still works with non-greedy +?.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-04 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-03 14:43 How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines Angus Comber
2014-04-03 15:08 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 15:22 ` Angus Comber
2014-04-03 17:24 ` Angus Comber
2014-04-03 19:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-04 9:58 ` Angus Comber
2014-04-04 10:35 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-04 10:49 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-04 10:50 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-04 12:50 ` Angus Comber
2014-04-04 13:26 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
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