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Re: Why are RegExps never working?

From: Johan Bockgård
Subject: Re: Why are RegExps never working?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:22:01 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> There's a minor 'catch' here, which may prove interesting.  The
> `character-classes' supported by the regexp engine of Emacs
> consider the end of a line a [[:space:]] character

There are several modes where this is not true, including Lisp and C. In
these modes newlines have `endcomment' syntax.

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Johan Bockgård
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