From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Keyboard macro and regexp syntax search Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:44:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8e0f9a74-6582-441f-b16a-0ae62af0e142@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198186901 11936 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2007 21:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:41:41 +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 Dec 20 22:41:52 2007 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 4.50) id 1J5T94-0005wQ-3u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:41:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5T8k-0005WC-GP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:41:14 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.182.33.225 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1198183450 12016 127.0.0.1 (20 Dec 2007 20:44:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.182.33.225; posting-account=ksnUxwoAAAC32CfuC8oi8NKZxrTcNtdm User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154830 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:50256 Archived-At: Here's a key sequence which searches a whitespace character with a non- whitespace character after it and moves right to terminate the search there (just an example): M-C-s \s-\S- According to the macro editor it is recorded like this: ;; Keyboard Macro Editor. Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to cancel. ;; Original keys: M-C-s \ s \ S Command: last-kbd-macro Key: none Macro: M-C-s ;; isearch-forward-regexp \ ;; self-insert-command s ;; self-insert-command \ ;; self-insert-command S ;; self-insert-command ;; forward-char-nomark The dash (-) character is missing after the syntax matcher (\s and \S), so the macro doesn't work at playback. Is it a bug? GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE