I tested the command you suggested (,x/\/\*/.,/\*\//) and it works as I wanted, thanks. But there's something I still don't understand and is the meaning of that comma in there. As far as I know, the comma is a mark that delimits the addresses that acme understands, but I do not know how a comma is interpreted inside a regexp. I'd really appreciate if you could clarify this matter to me.
2009/6/26 yy <yiyu....@gmail.com>: > 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. > > You could use (\n|.) to match any character including newlines > (regex(6) says that a new line is not cosidered "any character", and > as a matter of fact, \n is part of the sam language, not of regex > itself). However, since the longest possible regex will be matched, > then you will also match the end of the comment, so for example in: > /* comment 1 */ > bar > /* comment 2 */ > you will match everything, I don't think that is what you want. > >> And finally, what command I should use to select c comments without >> regard if they are several lines long or just one? > > Edit ,x/\/\*/.,/\*\//c/COMMENT/ > > The possibility of modifying the dot is powerful. Many times it is > much easier than finding an huge regex. > >> Saludos >> -- >> Hugo >> >> > > Un saludo, > > > -- > - yiyus || JGL . > > -- Hugo
