From: Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How can I assign a regex to a variable?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:44:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFMGiz8kjNqBwmbM4N7jqkOqo0LAX34+JPyZXnSU+krFUaz6qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <047b385d-5843-4548-810f-de411a62de20@default>
On Thursday, July 28, 2016, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Show a small but complete example that demonstrates the problem.
> > Someone will be able to tell you what’s wrong with it.
Okay, I'll try. But I do have the regexes that work great when I put it in
double quotes directly in the function. However, I want to be able to
define the regexes external to the function for better generality and
documentation.
I'll return later with a complete example.
Cheers!
-Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-28 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-28 19:36 How can I assign a regex to a variable? Tom Browder
2016-07-28 19:48 ` Yuri Khan
2016-07-28 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-28 20:44 ` Tom Browder [this message]
2016-07-28 20:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-28 21:57 ` Tom Browder
[not found] ` <mailman.2250.1469738663.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-29 7:08 ` Barry Margolin
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