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Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp
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Nikolaj Schumacher |
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Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp |
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:22:56 +0200 |
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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nordlöw wrote:
>> Does Emacs provide a shorter way of matching an emacs-lisp symbol
>> (identifier) than the following:
>> "\\(" "\\(?:" "\\w\\|\\s_" "\\)+" "\\)"
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> You do not need two level of parenthesis. Use either the shy group or
> the submatch group type parenthesis.
He needs two if he wants to match the entire symbol in a matching group,
though.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher