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Re: I need help with a regular expression
From: |
José A . Romero L . |
Subject: |
Re: I need help with a regular expression |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:51 -0000 |
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On 16 Kwi, 23:25, Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> wrote:
(...)
> thinking about something like:
> "^[^;]+(defun "
>
> But that does not work. It marks the following completely, instead of
> the three at its own:
> (defun a () (message "a"))
> (defun b () (message "b"))
> (defun c () (message "c"))
>
> Why is this? And how can I make a regular expression that does what I
> want?
Because emacs regular expressions are by default multi-line? All in
all an emacs buffer is just a very long stream of characters, so this
approach makes sense, I guess.
Try this instead: "^[^;\n]*(defun " - and remember: regexp-builder is
your friend ;-)
Cheers,
--
José A. Romero L.
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