From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114194: Treat interpreter-mode-alist as alist of regexps, not literals Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:34:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378863264 29816 80.91.229.3 (11 Sep 2013 01:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 11 03:34:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VJZK7-0002AZ-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:34:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJZK6-0007uz-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJZK3-0007uu-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJZK2-0008BV-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJZK2-0008BR-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJZK0-0002ec-OQ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:34:20 -0400 X-Spook: blackjack csim AVIP MD2 FIPS140 Osama underground threat X-Ran: (&:VBr`nW]%,' (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:09:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163293 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> How 'bout simply adding \\` and \\' around the string (without quoting it)? >> Why? > > So you don't need to distinguish those that start with \\ and those > that don't. And so you don't need to modify every entry adding \\` and \\'. (I am dumb and do not understand.) But what if I want a regexp entry that isn't anchored at both ends?