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From: hector <hectorlahoz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp problems the evil \[
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:38:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170324003836.GA12550@workstation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5B0FOKgmQH+ie5HLVcZv_TK5dOsXHdM5kzbVmkSJHe5fg_jA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:38:18AM +0100, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> > Wow six \ I gave up after five.
> 
> Yes, it's ridiculous, I personally think emacs lisp regexes are
> unusable once escapes are involved, especially interactively.

It's not so serious. Easy:

    escape        *2
text ---> regexp ---> lisp

\[         \\\[       \\\\\\[



  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-24  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23 21:57 regexp problems the evil \[ Uwe Brauer
2017-03-23 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-23 22:11   ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-23 23:38     ` Aurélien Aptel
2017-03-24  0:38       ` hector [this message]
2017-03-24 17:07         ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-24 17:07       ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-24  2:27     ` Stefan Monnier

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