From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: emacs regexp question
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:56:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3he75n2u2.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87llwhyd36.fsf@gnufans.net
D. Goel <deego@gnufans.org> writes:
>> - How should I ask for the first occurrence of N blank lines for
>> some fixed, yet large, N.
>
> "\n\n\n\n..." I don't think there's another way to do it using emacs'
> regexps.
You can use the \{M\} postfix operator (M integer).
So e.g. "\n\\{500\\}" would match exactly 500 blank lines.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-04 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-04 17:24 emacs regexp question gmayer
2003-06-04 17:19 ` D. Goel
2003-06-04 17:56 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-06-04 18:07 ` D. Goel
2003-06-04 17:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
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