From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacing a function with another one Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:05:06 +0100 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87zjkrut1p.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87vbvofsi6.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87bnxgs4r9.fsf@web.de> <87lhwj1cfz.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87zjkz6vd5.fsf@web.de> <8738ir161u.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87eh2b6nfm.fsf@web.de> <87r46anab5.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvleiey.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvlbm8p.fsf@web.de> <87siqpsdgs.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87ob1djpkq.fsf@web.de> <87txb4izhj.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87y50gs38k.fsf@web.de> <87mwgvmogh.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87eh26y2mj.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394918255 26744 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2014 21:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:17:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 22:17:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WOvxf-0006NP-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:17:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51231 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOvxf-00041o-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOvuq-0006MW-D8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOvue-0002lA-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:14:48 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:36527 helo=yun.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOvud-0002jb-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WOvuT-0005k0-MJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:14:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:29:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96528 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> How did you search for it? >> (search-forward-regexp "^\\s<") >> works well for me. > > Maybe he's confused by the fact that \s< won't match multi-char > comment starters. That`s what I tried to use it with. The documentation says it matches a comment start and nowhere mentions that it doesn`t work for starters like '//'. So I used `comment-start', which may be nil by the time it`s used ... -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.