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Re: re-search beginning of line or whitespace
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Neon Absentius |
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Re: re-search beginning of line or whitespace |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Nov 2005 03:23:55 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:39:46PM -0900, thus spake Tim Johnson:
> (re-search-backward "^\|[\t ]") ;; gives me an error
>
> What am I leaving out.
A slash ;)
The correct syntax is (re-search-backward "^\\|[\t ]") with your
syntax you are searcing for a line starting with a pipe ("|") and
continuing with white space. Appanently your buffer doesn't contain
such a line.
> TIA
> tim
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