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From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
Subject: Re: re-search repeat by \{N\} not working. Bug?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:00:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoij8xytht0t.fsf@telperien.dd.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4718.1124776601.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Friedrich Laher <fritz.laher@schmieder-laher.de> writes:

> "no new special characters will be defined in the future"

It is the construct "\{" that is special, not the character "{".

The manual says

    "The special characters are `.', `*', `+', `?', `[', `]', `^',
     `$', and `\'; no new special characters will be defined in the
     future. Any other character appearing in a regular expression is
     ordinary, unless a `\' precedes it."
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-- 
Johan Bockgård

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-23 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 16:00 re-search repeat by \{N\} not working. Bug? Friedrich Laher
2005-08-22 18:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-08-22 20:41   ` Friedrich Laher
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4682.1124743817.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-08-22 22:39     ` rgb
2005-08-23  5:36       ` Friedrich Laher
     [not found]       ` <mailman.4718.1124776601.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-08-23 10:00         ` Johan Bockgård [this message]

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