From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:50:37 +0200 Message-ID: <138575260906260250hca23acbi34aed21566004bad@mail.gmail.com> From: hugo rivera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Sam commands in acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f4489cc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, I am trying to select all c comments from within a file using acme, but I am unable to do it properly. The command x/\/\*.*\*\// is the closest I could get, but it doesn't work with comments that span over more than one line. This raises a question for me: somewhere, I cannot recall where, I read that commands in sam (and therefore acme) aren't line oriented but selection oriented, so, shouldn't '.*' match newline characters also? why it doesn't? I expected '.*' to work with newline characters since it works for spaces and tabs, and the three of them are white space, among others. And finally, what command I should use to select c comments without regard if they are several lines long or just one? Saludos -- Hugo