From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <138575260906260250hca23acbi34aed21566004bad@mail.gmail.com> References: <138575260906260250hca23acbi34aed21566004bad@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:57:27 +0100 Message-ID: From: roger peppe 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: Re: [9fans] Sam commands in acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f56687c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 : > 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 > >