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

Brian Sammon wplug-list at brisammon.fastmail.fm
Wed Apr 3 03:01:02 EDT 2013


> Foo that is not following 'no ':
> (?<!no )foo
> 
> Foo that is following neither 'no ' nor 'no evidence of':
> (?:(?<!no )|(?<!no evidence of ))foo

I don't think this will work the way he wants -- because you have it doing
(?<!no ) OR (?<!no evidence of ) .

I think the following would work:
  (?<!no(?: evidence of)? )foo




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