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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




      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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