From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nick Alexander <ncalexan@math.uci.edu>, rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Issue with rx: (rx (and anything anything)) seems incorrect
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:52:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfy49i8fi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I4eae-0003c9-9K@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 30 Jun 2007 11\:10\:24 -0400")
> Would someone please DTRT, then ack?
Fixed,
> The following is not:
> (rx (and anything anything)) => "\\(?:.\\|
> .\\|
> \\)"
> I have no idea why the newlines are inserted, nor why there are choice
> bars (|). Why not just "\\(?:..\\)" as before?
anything matches any char, whereas . does not match newlines. But the
result you see is indeed wrong. It should be
"\\(?:.\\|\n\\)\\(?:.\\|\n\\)". Thanks for the report,
Stefan
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2007-06-30 15:10 [ncalexan@math.uci.edu: Issue with rx: (rx (and anything anything)) seems incorrect] Richard Stallman
2007-06-30 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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