From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Vr Rm <vrrm00@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:39:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9y1swqi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502578E9.1020407@gmail.com>
Vr Rm writes:
> /.*\)$/
>
> i.e. a parenthesis at the end of a line. I can't do it!
What you have is a syntax error interactively. It should work in a
program (the backslash is a no-op in a string). /)$/ is good enough
and works in both interactive regexp search and in a program (unless
you need to match the whole line, in which case /^.*)$/ is what you
want (AFAIK Emacs doesn't guarantee longest match even today; I think
you can omit the "^" here, but I'd need to read the source to be
sure).
> [I'm a member of a] population that would dramatically benefit if
> they could actually use Emacs regular expressions.
Sure, but your blockage is that you aren't using Emacs REs, you're
trying to use some other kind of RE.
I think you might be helped a tiny bit by rawstrings, but I have to
admit that Stefan is right in your case: the problem is not the
proliferation of backslashes, it's that Emacs has a unique and
comparatively awkward syntax for regular expressions. Rawstrings
might make it a little bit easier for you to adapt, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-11 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 2:02 Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-03 9:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-03 17:45 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-04 19:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-05 0:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-05 11:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-05 7:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2012-08-06 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 10:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-06 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 16:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-03 22:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-04 14:38 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-08-04 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-05 0:13 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-06 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-10 1:33 ` Vr Rm
2012-08-10 5:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 6:07 ` [OT] " Jambunathan K
2012-08-10 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-10 17:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-11 7:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 11:05 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2012-08-12 0:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 21:11 ` Vr Rm
2012-08-10 23:03 ` Davis Herring
2012-08-10 23:24 ` Learning Emacs regexp (was: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)) chad
2012-08-11 7:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-10 22:33 Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-11 7:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 17:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-11 17:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-11 18:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-12 0:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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