> The point is about \\W. \\W matches any character that is not a
> word-constituent. I want `:-)' to become a smile if it is followed by any
> of `\\W' but not ')'. If I put it as "\\(:-?)\\)[^)]", then even strings
> like "smile_within:-)strings" also get smileys. So I am looking for a way
> to specify "characters in \\W but no ')' in the language of regexps".
":-)[^[:word:])]"
Stefan
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