Re: [9fans] Sam commands in acme

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:57 AM, roger peppe<rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> you need (.|\n) instead of .
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> sam originally used @ as a "match everything" character
> but it was removed, presumably because it was rarely used.

That's a stupid reason to remove a good feature. By that token, maybe
we should remove structural regular expressions since they're "rarely
used" and just go back to using ed.

Do you know if anyone preserved this feature and could send me the patch?

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> to match C comments, you need something like this:
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> x/\/\*([^*]|\*[^\/]|[^*\/]|\n)*\*\//
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> 2009/6/26 hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>:
>> 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
>>
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