From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regular expression search Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:49:21 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <200611011131.30744.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> <200611011310.59710.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162493682 342 80.91.229.2 (2 Nov 2006 18:54:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 19:54:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfhgj-0006Co-An for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:53:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfhgi-0005b6-UG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfhfo-0004PC-SJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfhfj-0004GT-V3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfhfj-0004Fl-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gfhfj-0007Qf-Lq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfhem-0005hF-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:51:17 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:51:16 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:51:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <200611011310.59710.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> 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:38514 Archived-At: [Please don't top-post.] vb wrote: > thank you for your explanation. The [[:print:]] notation didn't quite work > either, but following your suggestion I tried \\S- and it worked. Ah, the [:foo:] character classes were introduced in Emacs 22. > (defun vb-first-printable () > (interactive) > (beginning-of-line) > ( if (re-search-forward "\\S-" (line-end-position) 't) > (backward-char) > ) > ) (eq t 't) => t > Boy, nothing is what it seems with emacs :-) ? -- Kevin