RE: RegExp question

[JayBingham]

On Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:42 AM Ryan Bowman wrote:

> So I changed it to this "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?[^:]"
> so it won't match background-repeat: but then it no
> longer matches repeat,
> I assume because [^:] actually means to match
> something, but not a ':'
> so how do I specifiy that I don't care if anything
> follows the patter or not,
> so long as it is NOT ':'?

I am curious which version of emacs you are running.  I have emacs
21.2 loaded on my Windows 2k system and the above regexp matches
every repeat in your message except those followed by a ":" and one
that I added at the end of the buffer which does not have anything
following it.  You are correct in your assumption that [^:] actually
means to match something.  Remember that a new line is something, as
opposed to nothing.  This means that when repeat occurs at the end of
a line the new line is included in the matched string and point will
follow it (be at the start of the next line) so it may appear that it
was not matched.

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