From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Nikolaj Schumacher" <me@nschum.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:25:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50810101125s6074f666t8a244dd12df83095@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m23aj4cnsv.fsf@nschum.de>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nordlöw wrote:
>>> Does Emacs provide a shorter way of matching an emacs-lisp symbol
>>> (identifier) than the following:
>>> "\\(" "\\(?:" "\\w\\|\\s_" "\\)+" "\\)"
>>
>>
>> You do not need two level of parenthesis. Use either the shy group or
>> the submatch group type parenthesis.
>
> He needs two if he wants to match the entire symbol in a matching group,
> though.
Yes, my bad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 11:33 Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp Nordlöw
2008-10-10 15:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-10 18:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-10 18:25 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-10-10 15:47 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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