Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

>>However, it does play a special role in the syntax of regexps,
>>and it is not necessarily a bad thing for users to think of it
>>as a special character.
> 
> 
> There are more characters like this, ie. ':' and '-', which both play a
> special role in character sets, but not elsewhere.

My Emacs has

(regexp-quote "]") => "\\]"
(regexp-quote "-") => "-"
(regexp-quote ":") => ":"

I do like my Emacs.