From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: chad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Learning Emacs regexp (was: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <651F6603-F798-4381-929E-7D86A28DBC4D@gmail.com> <502464D6.4000103@gmail.com> <87wr1749m0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <502578E9.1020407@gmail.com> <50259359.3000201@lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.0 \(1485\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344641105 15173 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2012 23:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Vr Rm Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 11 01:25:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1SzyZj-00045V-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzyZi-0003Jz-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzyZe-0003GF-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:25:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzyZc-0005E2-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.213.169]:64132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzyZb-0005Dr-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: by yenl1 with SMTP id l1so2384209yen.0 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=Qfma6FSCjBROPRrU78qembmTg0r9+giQLLT3NP5iMak=; b=KX20fMsIwVCNq9VxNW9MHc2L7pxZOYR/5WRmL5tIovkMXxSGeI9V3VWo3fs8UHyGim zVX2kE9IXm3JbL+9yX6qjfO4fWJcIY1JNHoOzlX+DYzmMUk3stbdcz14ZTdovnUcBGd/ pLhj0dlxt+U1mUli9f3JVIjOJLwuIc54LrOS9Cs42GblFfyh2XTf/0vB3Sp75BYqjMmG Pn1QSTkpriUXabm4x+KeywP3PI557k4c1QaHVgDyVIdH5LeG+ldAiXTYTZ3WMcUGq4dj ekgXdXAZeUS8WbzH1JG/hSpjAWH5j2uXK00xkEJ7CUdWxcTEXOrM4gVi4K5CBTdOIcbI jMiw== Original-Received: by 10.236.135.147 with SMTP id u19mr4412443yhi.115.1344641094527; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.0.0.156] ([12.132.232.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z5sm236858ang.7.2012.08.10.16.24.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50259359.3000201@lanl.gov> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1485) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.213.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152426 Archived-At: You might also find M-x re-builder RET to be helpful. For added fun, type `C-h m' inside the re-builder buffer, but play with = the builder first. There are a few tricks that you just have to learn, with `C-q C-j' among = the biggest. This is such an old artifact of `unix versus dos versus = mac' that most hackers are inured at this point. (How old? It can = accurately be described as a `Multics versus TOPS-10 versus BBC Micro' = problem.) Hope that helps. *Chad