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Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Regexp for matching a symbol (identifier) in emacs-lisp |
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:25:16 +0200 |
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> He needs two if he wants to match the entire symbol in a matching group,
> though.
Yes, my bad.