From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp problems the evil \[
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:07:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvcawql0.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+5B0FOKgmQH+ie5HLVcZv_TK5dOsXHdM5kzbVmkSJHe5fg_jA@mail.gmail.com
>>> "Aurélien" == Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>> Wow six \ I gave up after five.
> Yes, it's ridiculous, I personally think emacs lisp regexes are
> unusable once escapes are involved, especially interactively.
> You can use rx instead of strings to make regexes from s-expressions.
> Strings elements are always assumed to match literally (rx will always
> escape whatever is needed to match the string literally).
> (query-replace-regexp (rx "\\[" (group (+ (not (any "}")))) "\\]") ...
Ah thanks did not know about it.
Uwe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-24 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-23 21:57 regexp problems the evil \[ Uwe Brauer
2017-03-23 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-23 22:11 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-23 23:38 ` Aurélien Aptel
2017-03-24 0:38 ` hector
2017-03-24 17:07 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-24 17:07 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2017-03-24 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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