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Re: short regexp to match any character?
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: short regexp to match any character? |
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Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:07:48 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I'm thinking it would help Emacs users to make it easy (short) to match any
> character, including newline. Am I missing something that's already there?
> If not, would this be a useful feature to add?
I think this feature could be implemented by analogy with
search-spaces-regexp and search-whitespace-regexp, i.e.
after setting a new variable `search-dot-regexp' to "\\(.\\|[\\n]\\)",
`.' would match newlines too.
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/