RE: RegExp question

[Ryan Bowman]

--- JayBingham <binghamjc@bluebottle.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:42 AM Ryan Bowman
> wrote:
> 
> > So I changed it to this "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?[^:]"
> > so it won't match background-repeat: but then it
> no
> > longer matches repeat,
> > I assume because [^:] actually means to match
> > something, but not a ':'
> > so how do I specifiy that I don't care if anything
> > follows the patter or not,
> > so long as it is NOT ':'?
> 
> I am curious which version of emacs you are running.
>  I have emacs
> 21.2 loaded on my Windows 2k system and the above
> regexp matches
> every repeat in your message except those followed
> by a ":" and one
> that I added at the end of the buffer which does not
> have anything
> following it.  You are correct in your assumption
> that [^:] actually
> means to match something.  Remember that a new line
> is something, as
> opposed to nothing.  This means that when repeat
> occurs at the end of
> a line the new line is included in the matched
> string and point will
> follow it (be at the start of the next line) so it
> may appear that it
> was not matched.
> 
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