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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regexp with comment character of buffer
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:41:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l1Uwx9u2G5ftglk98C3Pd0czKEb_V2BIzsyK3fPMVtnaa9EIBfrhN32cOx9EOf1e9QDe0y-rue7K1LKDHylvcP4q3c1G4cmkllA3UZ1onJU=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8V_yeoj-1V5Du2nOm1S1ECJvHEoBVjCtJRhY1tkqucQsA@mail.gmail.com>






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On Monday, August 12th, 2024 at 11:03 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 at 17:09, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > How can I change the regexp so that instead of the beginning ;;;
> > I use the comment character of the current buffer, replicated three
> > times ?
> > 
> > (let ( (heading-regexp "^;;;\\s-+\\([HM][[:digit:]]\\)\\s-")
> 
> 
> You’re asking a homework question so here are hints that I would give
> someone who is struggling with homework.
> 
> Do you already know how to get the comment character of the current buffer?

Have done the following.  Do I really need all this or are there better ways ?

(let* ((comment-char (regexp-quote (string-trim comment-start)))
       (three-comment-chars (make-string 3 (string-to-char comment-char)))





  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-12 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-12 10:08 Regexp with comment character of buffer Heime
2024-08-12 11:03 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 11:41   ` Heime [this message]
2024-08-12 12:26     ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 12:36       ` Heime
2024-08-12 17:11         ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 17:50           ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:13             ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 19:19               ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:22                 ` Heime

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