----- Original Message ----- From: "Rajsekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The point is about \\W. \\W matches any character that is not a > word-constituent. I want `:-)' to become a smile if it is followed by any > of `\\W' but not ')'. If I put it as "\\(:-?)\\)[^)]", then even strings > like "smile_within:-)strings" also get smileys. So I am looking for a way > to specify "characters in \\W but no ')' in the language of regexps". Oh, I see. I can't find any way to do it. You can perhaps build a larger [^...] but that is not exactly what you want. BTW the reg exps in perl is a bit stronger and I believe things like what you want can be done there. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
