Re: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work

[jeremiah . dodds]

Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org> writes:

> It seems to work for me with 'foo[\s^J]+bar' (no hyphen in the
> character class -- the hyphen is for a range, like [a-z])
>
> Silvio

Ahh, right. '\s-' *does* match characters with a whitespace syntax, but
since it's in a character alternative the '-''s meaning as a
range-definer takes precedence.

As an aside, there are ... a lot of edge cases in the Special Characters
in Regular Expressions info node for elisp, even for docs for a regular
expression implementation. It might actually serve the purpose of
pushing people towards writing functions and using other methods for
non-trivial editing tasks.