Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am 17.05.2005 um 14:55 schrieb Michael Dewar:
>
>
> than one cons to auto-mode-alist you can merge them together. It was
> said on this list that \\' is a more precise description of a file
> name's end than $. When using more excessively the regular expressions
> the code can become very hard to understand:
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (append
> '(("\\.\\(xsl\\|id\\[de\\]\\)\\'" . sgml-mode)
> ("\\.\\(plist\\|xml\\|xsl\\|fo\\)\\'" . xml-mode)
> ("\\.\\(tgz\\|tar\\.\\(bz2\\|gz\\|Z\\)\\)\\'" . tar-mode)
> ("\\.\\(arc\\|jar\\|lzh\\|zip\\|zoo\\)\\'" . tar-mode)
> auto-mode-alist)))
>
Unless I'm missing something, the \\ doesn't have anything to do with
the end of a word - in the RE above, the \\ at the end of literal
atoms is introducing 'special' characters i.e. \\| indicates an
alternative and \\(...\\) a grouping which allows you to reference
parts of the match with $1, $2 etc. The $ matches the end of the
string your trying to match and is as far as I know the best and only
way to match the end of a string.
Tim
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