Re: [9fans] Sam commands in acme

[roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

you need (.|\n) instead of .

sam originally used @ as a "match everything" character
but it was removed, presumably because it was rarely used.

to match C comments, you need something like this:

x/\/\*([^*]|\*[^\/]|[^*\/]|\n)*\*\//

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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