From: Rajsekar <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in>
Cc: LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smiley regexp problem
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:23:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r7i87p3x.fsf@rajsekar.pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871xa9w1ml.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:49:17 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> The point is about \\W. \\W matches any character that is not a
>> word-constituent. I want `:-)' to become a smile if it is followed by any
>> of `\\W' but not ')'. If I put it as "\\(:-?)\\)[^)]", then even strings
>> like "smile_within:-)strings" also get smileys. So I am looking for a way
>> to specify "characters in \\W but no ')' in the language of regexps".
>
> ":-)[^[:word:])]"
>
>
Oh great!
It worked perfect.
Thanks.
--
Rajsekar Manokaran
IIT Madras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-21 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 10:47 smiley regexp problem LENNART BORGMAN
2005-03-21 12:12 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-21 13:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-21 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 19:53 ` Rajsekar [this message]
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2005-03-17 11:55 Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:23 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:48 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 8:06 ` Rajsekar
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