From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1322 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: help with regex to filter non-ascii characters... Date: 11 Oct 2002 16:58:53 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668118 10793 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:58 2006 Original-Sender: ehartnett@EHARTNETT3 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.98.194.202 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.98.194.202 Original-X-Trace: 11 Oct 2002 22:59:20 GMT, 216.98.194.202 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!news.he.net!dimensional.com!pulsar.dimensional.com!207.40.197.76.MISMATCH!mindmeld.idcomm.com Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1462 Original-Lines: 20 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1462 Tue Jan 17 17:28:58 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1322 Archived-At: Please tell me a little more. I'm trying to test regexps all the time. I do M-x Re-builder and get a buffer with a pair of quotes. Do I type my regexp there? What does it act on? I can't figure out how to work it. How about a hint? Thanks! Ed Jesper Harder writes: > Ed writes: > > > Incidently, how does one test a regexp? > > Try `M-x re-builder'. A nice tool for testing regexps.