From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:36:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4400AD8E.5050001@gmx.at> <4400BBB1.2050800@gmx.at> <200602252213.k1PMDBP24413@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <4401A98D.3070809@gmx.at> <4401E0F2.7030800@gmx.at> <4401FCBA.1070206@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141408581 25117 80.91.229.2 (3 Mar 2006 17:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 03 18:56:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFEVL-0002Ew-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:55:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFEVL-0006Mw-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FEoM1-0008Md-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FEoLn-0008LD-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEArB-0007qq-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:50:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FDoB8-0006Qp-2a; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D83F012; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:36:08 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: HOORAY, Ronald!! Now YOU can marry LINDA RONSTADT too!! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:03:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51074 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > However, it does play a special role in the syntax of regexps, > and it is not necessarily a bad thing for users to think of it > as a special character. There are more characters like this, ie. ':' and '-', which both play a special role in character sets, but not elsewhere. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."