Re: Backslash cleanup introduced bug [284c470e 9/17]

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 09/18/2015 05:34 AM, Wilson Snyder wrote:
> One of your
> cleanups broke the verilog-mode.el package regressions.
>

Thanks for catching that.  I think you're referring to 753fbfbe, not to 
284c470e as the Subject: line says. 284c470e was intended to not change 
behavior. 753fbfbe was intended to fix behavior, but obviously I messed 
up in that instance (and thanks for fixing it). I now see that I also 
misclassified a few changes in 284c470e, as they actually did affect 
behavior (e.g., this change in verilog-mode.el:

-                (re-search-backward "/\*")
+                (re-search-backward "/\\*")

), but I think these misclassified changes all fixed bugs so it should 
be OK.

One other thing.  In 284c470e I tried to leave bugs alone when in 
doubt.  That is, although there are undoubtedly still some bugs related 
to backslashes, when in doubt I left behavior the same as it was 
before.  For example, lisp/net/tramp-adb.el has this:

(defcustom tramp-adb-prompt
"^\\(?:[[:digit:]]*|?\\)?\\(?:[[:alnum:]\e;[]*@[[:alnum:]]*[^#\\$]*\\)?[#\\$][[:space:]]"

and both instances of \\$ should probably be just $.  I wasn't sure, 
though, so I left them alone.