Re: the obvious. =)

["kim kubik" <chaotrope@jps.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>
To: sam Fans <sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: the obvious. =)


>I just have to shout to the world (well, to sam fans) that this editor
>is wonderful>I'm finally ready I can just write
>
>,x/^\/\*(.+\n)+ \*\/\n/ t /}\n/
>
>To copy the top comment down to the second method. e.g.
>

Jim (or anyone): 

this just ran up against my (mis)understanding of 
sam's regexp's. I'm sure when first using sam I did
something similar to your example above and the
'greedy' little bastard (.+\n)+ would (to my way
of thinking) eat the whole file, that is, never see
the closing */ of the commment because the .+ should
just keep on going.

But I tried what you have and it works, so obviously
all this time the way I've been getting around this,
using addresses, e.g.

,x/re/{
.,/re2/do stuff
}

isn't necessary.

So what am I missing?

- kim

PS: in your example there's a space after the 
    second + that shouldn't be there, right?
    At least by your example, but probably you
    do comments as:

/*
 * so there really is a space
 * before the last splat.
 *
 */

And the example left this out.