From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:22:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23aj4cnsv.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EF727E.6050808@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri\, 10 Oct 2008 17\:19\:26 +0200")
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nordlöw wrote:
>> Does Emacs provide a shorter way of matching an emacs-lisp symbol
>> (identifier) than the following:
>> "\\(" "\\(?:" "\\w\\|\\s_" "\\)+" "\\)"
>
>
> You do not need two level of parenthesis. Use either the shy group or
> the submatch group type parenthesis.
He needs two if he wants to match the entire symbol in a matching group,
though.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 11:33 Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp Nordlöw
2008-10-10 15:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-10 18:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]
2008-10-10 18:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-10 15:47 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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