From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get a concatenation of the negations with rx (ex: [^a][^b])? Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:00:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87o7g0f1k3.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <1417367556.377258.1699733869853@fidget.co-bxl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6413"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:V+JHej6wEAqTErTcoG/C6X7Mx3k= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 20:11:20 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r2cLA-0001UK-FW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:11:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2cKR-00082t-RF; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:10:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r1v5d-0007TD-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r1v5b-0001jQ-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r1v5X-00005A-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:00:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:10:32 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145515 Archived-At: Edgar Lux wrote: > Hello. I am trying to get this regular expression: > > "[^a][^b]" > > in an easier way. I thought that I could do > > (rx (not (seq "a" "b"))) > > but that got me > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Illegal argument > to rx ‘not’: (seq \"a\" \"b\")") > > The error is very clear, but I would like to know if there > is a smart way of achieving the same without having to type: > > (rx (seq (not "a") (not "b"))) > > which produces > > "[^a][^b]" (rx (not (any "a" "b"))) "[^ab]" ? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal