From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg?
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:10:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24p3jbadx.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50810110441o2c092f48y36ab5c9caa3ceefd@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat\, 11 Oct 2008 13\:41\:01 +0200")
"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>> the regexp-opt accept a second argument of "'word", but it doesn't
>> accept "'symbol"?
>>
>> Shouldn't it?
Sure, why not.
> Would not the semantics be exactly the same?
No, "\\<\\(\\w\\|\\s_+\\)+" (word delimiters) doesn't match the entire
lisp symbol `-test'.
> But one thing I think would be useful is to be able to use numbers for
> the PAREN argument to get an explicitly numbered regexp group back.
Is it possible to modify the numbering at all? If so, how?
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-11 10:02 regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? Xah
2008-10-11 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-11 12:10 ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]
2008-10-11 12:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-11 13:01 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-11 14:03 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.850.1223727025.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-12 1:45 ` Tim X
2008-10-12 10:17 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.880.1223806646.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-13 7:48 ` Tim X
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