From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Xue Fuqiao'" <xfq.free@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: About "/" in the regexp
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:01:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D95D604A173049658C4CACD423AF3AB0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213082726.b46491201c979c52a53c2bf5@gmail.com>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (append
> ;; File name (within directory) starts with a dot.
> '(("/\\.[^/]*\\'" . fundamental-mode)
> ;; File name has no dot.
> ("/[^\\./]*\\'" . fundamental-mode)
> ...)
> auto-mode-alist))
>
> I'm confused about the first "/" in the two regular
> expressions. Why is there a slash character? Can anybody
> help? Thanks.
It's for a file name "within [a] directory", e.g., /foobar.
The / is the directory separator.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 0:27 About "/" in the regexp Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-13 4:01 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-02-13 23:52 ` Xue Fuqiao
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