From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg?
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:41:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50810110441o2c092f48y36ab5c9caa3ceefd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb6e77aa-2bf0-49c6-8ff4-629e235e624e@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com>
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> the regexp-opt accept a second argument of "'word", but it doesn't
> accept "'symbol"?
>
> Shouldn't it?
Would not the semantics be exactly the same?
But one thing I think would be useful is to be able to use numbers for
the PAREN argument to get an explicitly numbered regexp group back.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-11 10:02 regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? Xah
2008-10-11 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-10-11 12:10 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-11 12:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-11 13:01 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-11 14:03 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.850.1223727025.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-12 1:45 ` Tim X
2008-10-12 10:17 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.880.1223806646.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-13 7:48 ` Tim X
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