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From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:47:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d4i8cuzk.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9a3e2b7-8cfb-4594-96af-e29065000876@b31g2000prb.googlegroups.com> ("Nordlöw"'s message of "Fri\, 10 Oct 2008 04\:33\:07 -0700 \(PDT\)")

Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does Emacs provide a shorter way of matching an emacs-lisp symbol
> (identifier) than the following:
>   "\\(" "\\(?:" "\\w\\|\\s_" "\\)+" "\\)"

I don't think so.  In fact, you should also add \\_< and \\_>, so it
doesn't match half symbols.

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher




      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10 15:47 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
2008-10-10 18:25     ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-10 15:47 ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]

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