* Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps]
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@ 2006-03-03 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-03 15:46 ` martin rudalics
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2006-03-03 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: rms, emacs-devel
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:23:04 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Unquoted special characters in regexps
>
> Section 34.3.1.1 (Special Characters in Regular Expressions) of the
> Elisp manual says:
>
> *Please note:* For historical compatibility, special characters are
> treated as ordinary ones if they are in contexts where their special
> meanings make no sense. ... It is poor practice to depend on this
> behavior; quote the special character anyway, regardless of where it
> appears.
>
> The three patches below eliminate spurious occurrences of such practice:
>
> * font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2)
> * emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-check-any, rx-check-not)
> * generic-x.el (reg-generic-mode): Quote "]"s in regexps when
> they have no special meaning.
Thanks, I installed these.
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2006-03-03 12:20 ` [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps] Eli Zaretskii
@ 2006-03-03 15:46 ` martin rudalics
2006-03-03 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: martin rudalics @ 2006-03-03 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: rms, emacs-devel
>>The three patches below eliminate spurious occurrences of such practice:
>>
>> * font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2)
>> * emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-check-any, rx-check-not)
>> * generic-x.el (reg-generic-mode): Quote "]"s in regexps when
>> they have no special meaning.
>
>
> Thanks, I installed these.
I'm confused that you installed these. The current thread on this went
in the opposite direction.
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* Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps]
2006-03-03 15:46 ` martin rudalics
@ 2006-03-03 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2006-03-03 17:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: rms, emacs-devel
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:46:28 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> >>The three patches below eliminate spurious occurrences of such practice:
> >>
> >> * font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2)
> >> * emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-check-any, rx-check-not)
> >> * generic-x.el (reg-generic-mode): Quote "]"s in regexps when
> >> they have no special meaning.
> >
> >
> > Thanks, I installed these.
>
> I'm confused that you installed these. The current thread on this went
> in the opposite direction.
I don't follow the thread. I installed that patch because Richard
asked me to.
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