Question

I am creating a simple mode for emacs that finds certain markup tags. One of the things needed is to mark footnotes between double curly braces. {{like this}} I am having trouble having this to working with the regex "\\(\\{[^}]*\\}". I feel like I am very close, but the regex causes many issues. What am I missing for this pattern to work?

Answer 1

This pattern matches one or more chars wrapped in double curly braces:

\{\{[^}]+\}\}

In your pattern the first opening brace was a regular one ( …