From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need Regex Tutorial Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:10:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20051205024808.GW1806@johnsons-web.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133900351 10638 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 20:19:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 21:19:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjEB-00015k-2u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:15:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjEN-0000Rl-8q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjE7-0000R2-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjE7-0000Qp-5f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjE7-0000Ql-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EjjEp-0001eB-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:16:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EjjAo-00086F-HC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:12:26 +0100 Original-Received: from 190-174.35-65.tampabay.res.rr.com ([65.35.174.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:12:26 +0100 Original-Received: from david by 190-174.35-65.tampabay.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:12:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 190-174.35-65.tampabay.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5BOBMxW0fLEJvHisA/bZGRSFhHg= 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:31713 Archived-At: Tim Johnson writes: > My last postings have indicate to me that I need to roll up my sleeves > and learn regex from the ground up. > > 1)Info on my GNU emacs *does not* show anything about regular > expressions. Info on my XEmacs does and it is not sufficient for me. > > I would appreciate pointers to online docs on regex, since > my emacs does appear not have them. > > 2)I'm an old dog, but I *can* learn new tricks if I have examples. > *lots* of examples, starting with the most basic. I can work from the > Fiedl book, but seeing some basic emacs examples will help me to > reconcile the differences between emacs regex (or as Friedl calls 'em - > 'scattered toothpicks') and "classic" approaches > > Pointers to examples welcome. > > thanks > tim > > -- > Tim Johnson > http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com I hope someone mentioned 'regexp-builder', which lets you create regular expressions from within emacs and watch how they work.