From: xfq <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About regexp
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:50:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B31F58.5030803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F32F7B31DBD34FE1963ABADD5C2218EC@us.oracle.com>
On 11/25/2012 11:41 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> The default value of the variable `sentence-end-base' is:
>> [.?!][]\"'")}]*
>> There is a backslash in the second part of the regexp, why?
>
> C-h v sentence-end-base tells you:
>
> sentence-end-base is a variable defined in `paragraphs.el'.
> Its value is "[.?!][]\"'")}]*"
>
> IOW, the value is a string. The double-quote chars shown surrounding the string
> are not characters in the string. The double-quote char shown just before the
> single-quote char, ', is in the string. When printed, that char is escaped with
> a backslash. The char in the string following the ' char is a different char (a
> curly quote) - it is not used to indicate the string limits, so it need not be
> escaped to distinguish it.
>
Thx. BTW, I like your bookark+/ediff+/Icicles/lacarte very much.
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2012-11-25 8:50 About regexp xfq
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