you need (.|\n) instead of . sam originally used @ as a "match everything" character but it was removed, presumably because it was rarely used.
to match C comments, you need something like this: x/\/\*([^*]|\*[^\/]|[^*\/]|\n)*\*\// 2009/6/26 hugo rivera <uai...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > I am trying to select all c comments from within a file using acme, > but I am unable to do it properly. The command x/\/\*.*\*\// is the > closest I could get, but it doesn't work with comments that span over > more than one line. This raises a question for me: somewhere, I cannot > recall where, I read that commands in sam (and therefore acme) aren't > line oriented but selection oriented, so, shouldn't '.*' match newline > characters also? why it doesn't? I expected '.*' to work with newline > characters since it works for spaces and tabs, and the three of them > are white space, among others. > And finally, what command I should use to select c comments without > regard if they are several lines long or just one? > Saludos > -- > Hugo > >
