From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs vs. perl => regular expressions Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:02:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: <112ac251gju9vf7@news.supernews.com> 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 1109787567 29998 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 18:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 19:19:27 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YMx-0004RY-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:14:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Yfl-0001pv-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YdK-0000zY-GX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:31:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YdC-0000vT-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:31:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YdA-0000u6-So for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:31:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.229] (helo=agminet02.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D6YJi-0001xp-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:11:26 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet02.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j22IANbV024410; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:10:23 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.50]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j22I2lpx017489; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:05:51 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j22I2kfU006765; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:02:46 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id j22I2hHQ006746 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:02:46 -0700 Original-To: "Tim Johnson" , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: <112ac251gju9vf7@news.supernews.com> Importance: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24475 I just got "Regular Expressions Recipes" by Nathan A. Good. I'm hoping to use it to learn RE. The book focuses on using Perl, vim, python and PHP. I would find it helpful if I could be pointed to documentation that outlines the unique RE features of emacs (or Xemacs). That way I could do the exercises in emacs also. I think that would be very helpful in learning RE for emacs. Is such documentation available? Any suggestions? The _best_ book on regexes, with extensive comparisons between Perl, Emacs, and other regex flavors: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/. - Drew