From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:01:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223730155 24430 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2008 13:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Xah To: "Lennart Borgman" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 15:03:32 2008 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 1Koe83-0004lL-27 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Koe6y-00008k-E5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Koe5p-0008BS-4H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Koe5n-0008AJ-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38748 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Koe5m-00089r-PF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:46335) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Koe5m-0007bh-L7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH51bf.bah.pppool.de [77.135.81.191]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23411845122F; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:01:12 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat\, 11 Oct 2008 14\:20\:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:58697 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman" wrote: >>> 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? > > See (info "(elisp) Regexp Backslash") > > `\(?NUM: ... \)' > is the "explicitly numbered group" construct. I was actually looking at the same info page when writing. I assume this an Emacs 23 feature, then. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher