Re: regex nirvana - near miss

[Stefan Monnier]

> Often I wish to match a string not followed by another string, e.g. "abc"
> without "def" following.

Indeed, negation is sorely lacking from Emacs's regexps.

BTW, the notion of negation in regexps is not quite as simple as it
sounds.  E.g. regexps supported by lex.el (in GNU ELPA) do include
a negation operator, but not the one you want: (seq "abc" (not "def"))
will happily match "abcdefg" (stopping at "abc", "abcd", "abcde", or
"abcdefg").


        Stefan