Re: non word abbrevs

[Stefan Monnier]

>     :regexp "\(<?[-=]>?\)")
> I must be missing something.

Hmmm... backslashes?  ;-)
The above string is the same as "(<?[-=]>?)" (in recentish Emacsen the
above backslashes should presumably be highlighted in
a font-lock-warning color for that reason).

Beware also that this regexp is matched backwards and stops as soon as
it finds a match, so it finds the *shortest* match rather than the
longest match.  IOW the <? part will always match the empty string.


        Stefan