From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: regexp-quote missing escapes in grouping constructs - Bug?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:16:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080614041653.GA6808@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2afcfda0806131036n58d584bal495cd7341bcf5c22@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:36:07PM -0400, MON KEY wrote:
> Y. but why are the "?" a"[" and "+" getting escaped regardless of the
> presence of a preceding \ whereas the alternative "|" inside the
> grouping construct isn't?
Ah -- maybe somewhat unexpectedly to you (e.g. in Perl it is), the "|"
isn't special in Emacs. You have to spell "\|" to say "alternative".
HTH
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 23:39 regexp-quote missing escapes in grouping constructs - Bug? St/n_P/rm/n
2008-06-13 6:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 17:36 ` MON KEY
2008-06-13 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-14 4:16 ` tomas [this message]
2008-06-13 6:20 ` Herbert Euler
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