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Re: Regex Problem
From: |
Nikolaj Schumacher |
Subject: |
Re: Regex Problem |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:29:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com> wrote:
> In an emacs regexp, you can directly enter a newline character as a
> possible match by hitting C-j (will appear as ^J in the regexp) and/or
> C-q C-m
You can, but you should most definitely not. It just makes the text
hard to read or edit in anything other than Emacs. Just use \n.
> Since Windows requires all lines to end with \r\n, I would allow for
> either ^J or ^M in the search).
I believe Emacs buffers will only contain \n even for Windows files.
> On Jul 19, 1:50 pm, travis jeffery <eatsleepg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I set up a tumblr post document as:
>> title:
>> body:
>>
>> So get the title I use (string-match "\\title: \(.*\)\$"), which is fine
What do you mean by document? A file or a buffer? If so, why do you
use string-match? You can just search around in the buffer, which
should be more efficient.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher