From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: short regexp to match any character? Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:30:57 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87hd64lkt6.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142123494 20738 80.91.229.2 (12 Mar 2006 00:31:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 12 01:31:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIEUY-0004KX-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:31:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIEUY-0002Pu-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:31:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIEUN-0002Po-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIEUL-0002NE-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIEUL-0002NB-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:31:13 -0500 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 1FIEXy-00064a-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:34:58 -0500 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 k2C0VBVJ028004 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:31:11 -0700 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k2C0VB5F016149 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:31:11 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-21.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.64.21]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k2C0VAId016135 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:31:10 -0700 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: <87hd64lkt6.fsf@jurta.org> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51509 Archived-At: > I'm thinking it would help Emacs users to make it easy > (short) to match any character, including newline. Am I missing > something that's already there? If not, would this be a useful > feature to add? I think this feature could be implemented by analogy with search-spaces-regexp and search-whitespace-regexp, i.e. after setting a new variable `search-dot-regexp' to "\\(.\\|[\\n]\\)", `.' would match newlines too. Yes, and it would be good to have a key (perhaps `C-.') bound in the Isearch map to toggle the newline sensitivity of dot (just like toggling case sensitivity. That way, when searching, you could change the value of `search-dot-regexp' on the fly.