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Re: How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines
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Thorsten Jolitz |
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Re: How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines |
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Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:26:15 +0200 |
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Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
> (highlight-regexp "aPDU[^^@]+[\}]$" (quote hi-yellow))
> I am still a little puzzled though because I have multiple closing braces
> followed by linefeeed in the aPDU's. But anyway, it works!
Probably because + is greedy and looks for the longest possible
match. You could check if it still works with non-greedy +?.
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cheers,
Thorsten
Re: How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines, Nicolas Richard, 2014/04/04