From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rajsekar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: smiley regexp problem Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:23:06 +0530 Message-ID: References: <13b1f5a13aeafb.13aeafb13b1f5a@net.lu.se> <871xa9w1ml.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111435522 4175 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 20:05:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: LENNART BORGMAN , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 21:05:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDT6x-0001l8-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:02:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDTO6-0003KP-L6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDTK6-0004Tc-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDTJm-0004Iy-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDTJl-0004FH-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.141.25.89] (helo=pridns.cs.iitm.ernet.in) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DDSyr-0005W9-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in (meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in [10.6.10.2]) by pridns.cs.iitm.ernet.in (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2LJxAuT012895; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:29:11 +0530 Original-Received: from rajsekar.pc ([10.132.7.21]) by meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id j2LJdqo12032; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:09:54 +0530 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <871xa9w1ml.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:49:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34910 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34910 Stefan Monnier 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