From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does (looking-at "\\>") mean? Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:07:45 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232916131 28004 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2009 20:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:42:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 21:43:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRBog-0002aC-Mq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:42:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRBnO-00015W-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:41:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m4g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.21.205.110 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232914065 28797 127.0.0.1 (25 Jan 2009 20:07:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m4g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.21.205.110; posting-account=7GrjgQoAAAD6slWURausdJnhFDkmQYC8 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166315 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:61638 Archived-At: >From the emacs info on regexps: `\>' matches the empty string, but only at the end of a word. `\>' matches at the end of the buffer only if the contents end with a word-constituent character. HTH Hugo Wang Lei wrote: > Hi, all. > > I copied a piece of code like this: > > (defun my-indent-or-complete () > (interactive) > (if (looking-at "\\>") > (hippie-expand nil) > (indent-for-tab-command))) > > But, I can't figure out what this "\\>" means. Could someone give me a > explanation ? > > Many thanks! > > -- > Regards > Lei