From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:23:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87aav61pil.fsf@eku238261.eku.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266510308 3118 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2010 16:25:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:25:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 17:25:05 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni9BW-0001Wg-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ni9BV-0002O5-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ni9Aq-00022k-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52211 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ni9Am-0001xD-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni9Ak-0008Jv-Jl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:24:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni9Ak-0008Jp-B7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:24:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni9Af-0000uO-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:24:09 +0100 Original-Received: from 157.89.133.36 ([157.89.133.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:24:09 +0100 Original-Received: from tyler.smith by 157.89.133.36 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:24:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.89.133.36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XdL8cLEdsTZt8L1SNzqD6RTNfJQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71930 Archived-At: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > Subj: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. > Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? > > > Please, someone, make an ascii or html table or even plain text > list of all these neat "new" non-standard ops that perl and > even php and ruby etc seem to have now, comparing them > to what Emacs has or don't have. I don't understand your question. Emacs' regexps facilities are explained in the manual, (info "(emacs)Regexps") . You will find on that page a link to further details for programmers. I don't know what new non-standard ops perl and php and ruby have, but if they aren't in the Emacs manual, then they most probably aren't in Emacs. > So you see a nifty regexp in that book, and you want to try > it in emacs --- what a bear, trying to convert it into > something that emacs understands. It sounds like you're trying to use a manual for one group of applications to learn another application. No question, that must be quite a bear. Probably easier to use the manual for Emacs to learn Emacs. Tyler