Re: Select Text Inside Parentheses

[Esben Stien]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> (defun foo ()
>   "..."
>   (interactive)
>   (when (re-search-forward
>          "(\\(\s-\\|[\n]\\)*\\(.+\\)\\(\s-\\|[\n]\\)*)" nil t)

This is supposed to be "(\\(\\s-\\|[\n]\\)*\\(.+\\)\\(\\s-\\|[\n]\\)*)" nil t)
, right?. If not, it's telling me:

"Invalid modifier in string"

>     (goto-char (match-beginning 2))
>     (push-mark nil 'nomsg 'activate)
>     (goto-char (match-end 2))
>     (setq deactivate-mark  nil)))

This doesn't seem to do anything. 

I go into the block: 

(
foo
bar
baz
)

, but nothing seems to happen when I run this code. No selection is
made. 

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