RE: Select Text Inside Parentheses

[Drew Adams]

> I've tried this on two platforms now; on my own distro, where I run
> emacs-22.3.2 and on an Ubuntu 12.04 with emacs-23.3.1
> I place my point on "b" in bar in this code: 
> (
> foo
> bar
> baz
> )

Put the cursor before the (, not after it.  Or redefine the command accordingly.
I did not hear you say that you wanted it to start with point between the
parens.  As I described, the regexp I gave looks first for a (.

Also, . matches any char except a newline.  If you want to pick up newlines
also, and not other whitespace, then change \\(.+\\) to
\\(\\(\\S-\\|[\n]\\)+\\). But if you want to pick up whitespace too, as in (foo
bar baz) or
(
foo bar
baz
)
then use just \\([^)]\\), IOW, just pick up everything up to the first ).

It depends what you want.  Read the Elisp manual's section about regexps.

. matches any char except a newline.
[\n] matches only a newline.
\\s- matches a whitespace char (but not a newline).
\\S- matches a non-whitespace, non-newline char.