[wplug] OT: Emacs, regular expressions and syntax highlighting

[WEBER, Lawrence]

Remember that RE is a pattern matching function.  The whole word pattern "foo" matches the "foo" in your next two example strings so it will be found.  Someone suggested a look-behind but unless you know what you are looking behind for, you are still stuck.  Perhaps a better example would help?

-L. A. Weber 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Green
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 10:31 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] OT: Emacs, regular expressions and syntax highlighting

Hi list-

OT topic, but I thought there might be one or two emacs users in the linux crowd.
I'm trying to customize emacs for my purposes- specifically I want to make my documents more "skimmable" by highlighing specific words. I'm stuck right now because I can't figure out how to write a regular expression that will highlight all instances of "foo" but not highlight "no foo" or "no evidence of foo". 

Any ideas, or perhaps alternate emacs packages to use (other than writing regular expressions for syntax highlighting)? 
Thanks! 
-Doug

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