David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rajsekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Rajsekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>
> Why don't you match "laugh" first, and only look for a smile if no
> laugh is can be found?
The code to add the smiley (gnus/smiley.el) does not allow me to do that.
If I have `:))', both, smile and laugh pictures get inserted.
--
Rajsekar Manokaran
IIT Madras
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