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Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression)
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression) |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:26:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
() Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
() Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:12:33 +0000
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> wrote:
> > You can add a spec for ‘ErrorMode’, with default face, prior to this
one.
> Which Emacs version does support that?
> Any that processes these specs in the given order, with
> "masking semantics", i suppose. (I haven't tried.)
What does:
| (search-forward-regexp "\\([Ee][Rr][Rr]\\)\\(?!orMode\\)")
give on your Emacs?
It throws an error "Invalid regular expression".
Sorry for being unclear. Here is a reformulation:
"Presuming that Emacs processes the user-specified font-lock specs
in the order given and that once a piece of text is marked as
fontified, it no longer qualifies for further processing,
one way to "not match ErrorMode but match "Err" is to specify first
"ErrorMode" with the default face (thus simulating "not matching"
and simultaneously making that text unavailable for...), and second
the "Err" with the warning face."
That is, two entries in the list, neither of which use ‘?:’.
So, instead of asking Emacs to look ahead on "Err" and decline to
match if the trailing text is "orMode", you ask Emacs to explicitly
find "ErrorMode" and (quietly) exclude it from future hits when
looking for "Err". This is like sweeping the path with a glue gun.
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), (continued)
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Kevin Rodgers, 2012/02/02
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), 土星五号, 2012/02/02
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/02/03
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Tim Landscheidt, 2012/02/03
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/02/03
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Tim Landscheidt, 2012/02/04
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), 土星五号, 2012/02/04
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression),
Thien-Thi Nguyen <=
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Tim Landscheidt, 2012/02/05
- Re: does emacs regular expression support (?!expression), Glenn Morris, 2012/02/02