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From: Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this regexp?
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:05:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d72uz6rv.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxkd72us74y.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com>

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

>Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>>Don't we use the regexp scheme documented under 
>>(x)emacs->Searching and Replacement->Regexp search?
>
>Yes, but it's a matter of the lisp reader's context: You have to
>double most occurrences of `\' in order to get them into a lisp
>expression.  What you type in the minibuffer as "\(a\|b\)" must become
>"\\(a\\|b\\)" when used in a string expression in elisp.

Is this documented somewhere and if it is, where?

-- 
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
19. Dezember 2001



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-07 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-07 18:48 Frank Schmitt
2001-11-07 18:54 ` Norbert Koch
2001-11-07 19:32   ` Frank Schmitt
2001-11-07 19:39     ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-11-07 20:05       ` Frank Schmitt [this message]
2001-11-07 20:47         ` Norbert Koch
2001-11-09  9:50       ` Martin Monsorno
2001-12-29 21:37         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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