From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to really escape a double quote? Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:55:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87sjvdq8z2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298710576 20874 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2011 08:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:56:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 09:56:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtFwf-0006L7-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:56:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtFwe-0000Wz-TU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47082 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtFwE-0000Wm-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtFw9-0001Vl-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtFw9-0001Ve-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:55:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtFw8-00064K-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:55:36 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:55:36 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:55:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <87sjvdq8z2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79497 Archived-At: On 2/24/11 5:00 PM, David Kastrup wrote: ... > ^ loses its special meaning if it is not the first character of the > string. So move your escaped double-quote one position to the right. I didn't know that! Here's the reference from (elisp)Regexp Special: For historical compatibility reasons, `^' can be used only at the beginning of the regular expression, or after `\(', `\(?:' or `\|'. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA