Rajsekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rajsekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to setup the smileys similar to gaim. >> So I put >> >> "\\(:)\\)\\W" for smile. >> and >> "\\(:))\\)\\W" for laugh. >> >> The problem is that :)) also contains a :). At the same time, i do not >> want to replace \W with something like [^)] because i lose the advantage of >> \W (which works based on the current syntax). I want something like \\W >> minus the character `('. Can someone tell me how to achieve this? > > I see from theory that the needed language is still a regexp, yet i > am not able to express it in the language of regexp. Is it a > shortcoming in the language?
Why don't you match "laugh" first, and only look for a smile if no laugh is can be found? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel