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: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:59:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4400AD8E.5050001@gmx.at> <4400BBB1.2050800@gmx.at> <200602252234.k1PMY9A24651@raven.dms.auburn.edu> 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 1140913719 8260 80.91.229.2 (26 Feb 2006 00:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 26 01:28:36 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 1FD9m5-0001pf-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:28:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FD9m8-0006Yv-LK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FD8O2-0005HT-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:59:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FD8O0-0005G0-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:59:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FD8Nz-0005Ff-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:59:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FD8OM-0005E9-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:59:58 -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 mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D361D757; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:59:29 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck X-Yow: I feel like I'm in a Toilet Bowl with a thumbtack in my forehead!! In-Reply-To: <200602252234.k1PMY9A24651@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:34:09 -0600 (CST)") 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:50977 Archived-At: Luc Teirlinck writes: >>>From my previous message: > > But "quoting" `]' by writing "[]]" instead of just `]', seems > contorted, even though it would be less confusing than "\\]". > > But if you *really* want to emphasize that the `]' does not close a > character alternative, "[]]" is the only way I know to do that. > "\\]" does not do the job. JFTR, in AWK regexps the backslash retains its special meaning inside character lists. 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."