bug#46909: 27.1; (rx (literal EXPR))

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>  (elisp) 'Rx Constructs' has this:
>
> '(literal EXPR)'
>      Match the literal string that is the result from evaluating the
>      Lisp expression EXPR.  The evaluation takes place at call time, in
>      the current lexical environment.
>
> But where can that construct be used?  I tried `(rx (literal "abc"))'
> (and other EXPRs), and I just get an error saying that `literal' isn't
> recognized for RX.  Doc bug?  Code bug?

WFM:

0. emacs -Q
1. (rx (literal "abc")) C-j
   => "abc"

> In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2020-08-12
> Repository revision: 86d8d76aa36037184db0b2897c434cdaab1a9ae8
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19041
> Configured using:
>  `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>  --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static''

Are you sure you're not actually running this in an older Emacs?

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 27.1.91 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2021-03-04 built on tia
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