From: jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:04:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqdbh6b6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120218212608.DA22418083E@neo.msri.org> (Silvio Levy's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:26:08 -0800")
Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org> writes:
> It seems to work for me with 'foo[\s^J]+bar' (no hyphen in the
> character class -- the hyphen is for a range, like [a-z])
>
> Silvio
Ahh, right. '\s-' *does* match characters with a whitespace syntax, but
since it's in a character alternative the '-''s meaning as a
range-definer takes precedence.
As an aside, there are ... a lot of edge cases in the Special Characters
in Regular Expressions info node for elisp, even for docs for a regular
expression implementation. It might actually serve the purpose of
pushing people towards writing functions and using other methods for
non-trivial editing tasks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-19 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-18 21:26 replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work Silvio Levy
2012-02-19 3:04 ` jeremiah.dodds [this message]
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2012-02-18 17:52 Steve Petersen
2012-02-18 19:17 ` Thorsten
2012-02-18 19:33 ` jeremiah.dodds
2012-02-18 20:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-19 2:47 ` jeremiah.dodds
2012-02-18 23:30 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-19 0:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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