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Re: smiley regexp problem
From: |
Rajsekar |
Subject: |
Re: smiley regexp problem |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:53:19 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Rajsekar <address@hidden> 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?
--
Rajsekar Manokaran
IIT Madras