From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: forward-word and NamesLikeThis Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:12:54 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150683220 1282 80.91.229.2 (19 Jun 2006 02:13:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 19 04:13:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fs9Gh-0001J3-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:13:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fs9Gg-0004Sf-Ik for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:13:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fs9GI-0004Gw-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fs9GE-0004FH-S8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fs9GE-0004FE-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.87.113.118] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fs9QR-0001bG-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k5J2D3C9008661 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:13:04 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-65-31.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.65.31]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k5J2D2MK008916 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:13:03 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:35535 Archived-At: (defun forward-stud () (interactive) (while (not (looking-at " \|[A-Z]")) (forward-char)) (forward-char)) why doesn't it stop at all characters following spaces and at upper case characters. I have never used the \| before so I suppose something is wrong with the regexp, but what? Use two backslashes to insert a backslash in a Lisp string: \\|.