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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>, <6390@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:22:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2312722CD01C4D5BAA9DF0A3DA9377DC@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilsFeeuLrHzKfi2fFig2YiyocN2naHYLVTNkiLw@mail.gmail.com>

> (setq x (regexp-quote "a
> b"))
> (message "length x=%d" (length x))
> 
> The length of x will be 3 because the string returned
> by regexp-quote includes a newline.
> Would it not be more practical if the result was "a\nb"?

I, for one, do not understand you.

(setq y "a
b")
(setq x (regexp-quote y))
(setq z "a\nb")
(equal x y) = (equal x z) = t
(length x) = (length z) = 3

What are you trying to say?
And what does it mean to "quote newline"?

Please try to explain clearly what the problem is that you see, or what you are
trying to do that does not succeed as you expect.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-10 14:42 bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline? Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 15:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-10 15:02   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 15:34     ` Drew Adams
2010-06-10 16:08     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-10 16:11       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 16:22         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-10 16:46           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 17:03             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-10 18:07               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 23:11                 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-11  0:44                   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 15:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-06-10 15:34   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 16:28     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-06-10 16:47       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 16:56     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-10 17:00       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-11  4:19 ` MON KEY
2010-06-11  4:43   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-11 20:09     ` MON KEY
2010-06-11 20:37       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-12  6:18         ` MON KEY
2010-06-12 13:28           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-14  3:00             ` MON KEY
2010-06-14  5:33               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-12  6:51         ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-06-12 13:37           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-09  5:30           ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-09 10:03             ` Lennart Borgman

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