From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to search a whole word in emacs? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <1193422116.266878.76080@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195782047 11489 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2007 01:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 02:40:52 2007 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 1IvNXF-0003X4-1J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:40:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvNX0-0008QR-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1195778644 729 166.84.1.3 (23 Nov 2007 00:44:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:44:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153989 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:49419 Archived-At: Amy Templeton wrote: ... > >For more information, the section in the Info system on regexps is useful. > >Amy For *VASTLY* more information, plus examples galore, plus explanations, etc, don't even think of using regexps without first acquiring the book (well, "bible"): Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition By [54]Jeffrey E. F. Friedl 2nd Edition July 2002 0-596-00289-0, Order Number: 2890 484 pages, $39.95 US $61.95 CA #28.50 UK Much cheaper (eg 40% off) at www.bookpool.com. This book is the regexp-bible for the planet -- covers emacs, perl, php, egrep, java, you name it. Scan through the book, and you won't understand how you thought you knew what you were doing before you got the book. To convince her and others to get it, how about some comments from those who've got the book? THANKS! David