From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: incremental regexp search string Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135021580 8964 80.91.229.2 (19 Dec 2005 19:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 19 20:46:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoQvF-0005RA-95 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:43:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoQw6-0003pK-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EoQvv-0003p1-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EoQvt-0003oW-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoQvt-0003oS-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:44:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EoQyt-0003Hi-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48051 Archived-At: Searching for \[\[ [0-9]+ Currently, when I write to another person telling him of an incremental regexp search expression with some special constructs used as ordinary characters, it appears I must say the expression in words: two left square brackets followed by a space and a number between 0 and 9. and he must type [[ [0-9]+ On the other hand, for `occur' interactively, I can suggest \[\[ [0-9]+ as an argument that he simply copy. Specifically, when I try to tell my correspondent that he should seek \[\[ [0-9]+ an incremental regexp search looks for \\\[\\\[ \[0-9\]\+ which is not what I intend. An incremental regexp search for [[ [0-9]+ produces \[\[ \[0-9\]\+ which is not what I want either. I can edit \[\[ \[0-9\]\+ using M-e and the search then succeeds. Besides editing, is there anything I can do to enable me to send a message about a specific incremental regexp search? If so we should document better. Or is my quest a lose? -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc