From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz" Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:47:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20101001.102359.694015950198022743.rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286261277 3065 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 06:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:47:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 08:47:56 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P31Jb-0003IT-3U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:47:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P31Ja-00020n-GE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41833 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P31JA-00020i-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P31J9-0002Dk-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P31J9-0002DS-2P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P31J3-0003B1-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:47:21 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:47:21 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:47:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-10-19 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75068 Archived-At: rasmith@tamu.edu wrote: >> I imagine the REs for different parts of the language > are >> getting in the way of each other somewhere. I will try removing some >> until I get something that works and go on from there... >> > > My guess is that there's some problem with escaping special characters > in the context in which you're using it. No, it was what I said. Have a look at http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_syntax_coloring.html "the order of your [font-lock list] list is important. Make sure the smallest lengthed text goes last." -- Gary Please do NOT send me 'courtesy' replies off-list. GNU Emacs 23.2.1 emacsclient 23.2