From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40111 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What's wrong with this regexp? Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:05:08 +0100 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175711 31478 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3771 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 20:10:25 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 20:10:25 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 161YzU-0001XZ-00; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 14:08:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Nov 2001 14:07:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA25407 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:07:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3724 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2001 20:07:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3719 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 20:07:32 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 20:07:32 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 161Z1d-0004YA-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:10:17 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pppin63.max-hochsimmer.rz-online.net Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1005163817 17493 212.7.169.63 (7 Nov 2001 20:10:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2001 20:10:17 GMT X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/1.3.23.1 X-Face: "?Hv7MyYveeGDm66,O\f[l6!L*,`Q)c&3'8{9UGIM`EO8<3ASfX`8}W+u;F},&V%/y+cz(z&spQ(`CkKzCJY/@0R]aM#[W7*$(,QA-oO0f}Z2S0Y0~b5}|XDhQds[9}=t$Hf%G2c;zR%;$"~eI+dw3Gy!xKw=oduK(-, User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service (Windows), i586-pc-win32) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40111 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40111 Karl Kleinpaste writes: >Frank Schmitt 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