[for some reason this did not get posted in 24 hours, so I'm trying
again]

The manpage says it works, but I can't get the following simple
pattern:

'(http://[^']+)'

to match onClick in the following area tag:

<area shape="rect" coords="17,360,73,370" href="javascript:void(0);"

onClick="stxt
('http://tsp.vhb.de/psepfree/fn/tspdemo/sfn/showedetail/DocID/1
66440/EditionID/28/SectionID/3/PageID/166422/pDay/10.05.2004%
2000:00:00/show
typ/1/SH/0/index.html');"
onMouseover="mark(17,360,73,370);return overlib('"Was
macht die
Welt - vier Fragen an Josef Joffe" lesen Sie heute auf der
Meinungsseite.<br>');"
onMouseout="nomark();return nd();">

it matches the var popup URL on this one:

<a href="javascript: var popup =
window.open
('http://tsp.vhb.de/psepfree/fn/tspdemo/sfn/download/PageID/16642
2/EditionID/28/pDay/10.05.2004%
2000:00:00/PageNum/1/SH/0/index.html','downlo
ad','scrollbars=yes,location=no,status=no,width=500,height=230');"><im
g
src="http://tsp.vhb.de/epapers/tsp/image/download.gif" border=0
hspace="0"
vspace="0"></a>

I'm using 0.9p128 on cygwin, starting URL:
http://tsp.vhb.de/psepfree/fn/tspdemo/sfn/showepage/DocID/0/EditionID/
0/PageID/0/PageNum/0/SH/0/index.html

Thanks for your comments,
Paul