From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:09:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200603031409.k23E9f019527@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <4400AD8E.5050001@gmx.at> <4400BBB1.2050800@gmx.at> <200602252213.k1PMDBP24413@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <4401A98D.3070809@gmx.at> <4401E0F2.7030800@gmx.at> <4401FCBA.1070206@gmx.at> <200602280030.k1S0UDE07149@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <44073C08.1070903@gmx.at> <200603022326.k22NQhZ05807@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <4407F349.8090202@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141433099 14517 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2006 00:44:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 04 01:44:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFKsu-0002AK-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:44:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFKsw-0007gf-D1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFKp9-0005nO-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFKp4-0005jv-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFEUK-0005Uw-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FFB4v-0001tz-Q7; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:16:21 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k23EEUmT012430; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:14:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id k23E9f019527; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:09:41 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rudalics@gmx.at In-reply-to: <4407F349.8090202@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:42:01 +0100) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.1 (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]); Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:14:30 -0600 (CST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51116 Archived-At: Martin Rudalics wrote: Can you tell me what the author wants to match? To give a less technical answer than in my previous response, an _unquoted_ ", followed by a bunch non-newline whitespace or commas. Most humans _do_ expect to find some sort of symmetry in the things they observe. Not necessarily. Because you might start your regexp search in the middle of something, breaking all symmetry. In the example above, the search probably started inside a string and the regexp is looking for the end of it. Sincerely, Luc.