From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp problems the evil \[ Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:07:36 +0000 Message-ID: <87r31mwqlj.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87shm3fygf.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87o9wrfxta.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20170324003836.GA12550@workstation> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490375323 5776 195.159.176.226 (24 Mar 2017 17:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:08:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 24 18:08:39 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1crShS-0000B6-AT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:08:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crShY-0001h8-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crSgw-0001gs-L3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crSgt-0006Nb-FJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60746 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crSgt-0006NQ-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:07:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1crSgi-0004BP-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:07:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:MCfAfQLL8ucyktpf7FGe1iR97Gk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112650 Archived-At: >>> "hector" == hector writes: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:38:18AM +0100, Aurélien Aptel wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Uwe Brauer 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 > \[ \\\[ \\\\\\[ But you must confess that it is a bit counter intuitive, no?