Emacs Regex vs Regex in Python, JavaScript, Java
Emacs regular expression is different from the regular expression in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Perl etc.
Here are practical major differences.
| JavaScript, Python, Perl, Java Etc | emacs lisp (may not be exactly equivalent) | |
| Capture | "(capture)" | "\\(capture\\)" |
| digit | "\d" | "[0-9]" or "[[:digit:]]" † |
| word | "\w" | "[_A-Za-z0-9]" or "[[:word:]]" † |
| whitespace | "\s" | "[ \n\t]" or "[[:space:]]" † |
† Elisp: Regex Named Character Class and Syntax Table
Emacs Lisp, Regex in Lisp Code
- Elisp: Regular Expression
- Elisp: Regex Functions
- Emacs: Regular Expression Syntax
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- Elisp: Case Sensitivity (case-fold-search)
- Elisp: Find Replace Text in Buffer
- Elisp: Match Data (Regex Result)
- Elisp: Unicode Escape Sequence
- Elisp: Convert Regex to Lisp Regex String
- Elisp: How to Test Regex
- Elisp: Regex in Readable Syntax, Package Rx
- Elisp: Regex Named Character Class and Syntax Table
- Emacs Regex vs Regex in Python, JavaScript, Java