From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regular expression Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:12:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7s5bu9Fg2iU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264445102 3191 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2010 18:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:45:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 19:44:54 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 4.50) id 1NZTvd-00011D-6f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:44:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZTve-0000sG-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:44:50 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe19.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0nkJrXybYDf2ufLEXJ8E9vobwns= Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:12:10 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176382 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:71449 Archived-At: > How to exclude the newline character? I tried > [^ ]-[^ \n] > but that does not work. Why? And how to search for this? \n is the representation of a newline inside an Elisp string, so it will work if you do (re-search-forward "[^ ]-[^ \n]"). If it didn't work for you, it's most likely because you typed that text not within an Elisp string, but at a minibuffer prompt, where there's no such backslash-espaces. Instead you want to do hit C-q C-j to insert an actual newline. Stefan