From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: include Ada Reference Manual info files in ada-mode ELPA package?
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:26:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8538bbhfsv.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36efd654-e8f5-485a-8133-88172824d1aa@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:44:21 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> >> Please use \` and \' instead of ^ and $.
>> > What is the rationale for that?
>> File names can contain newlines.
>> > Is it documented somewhere?
>>
>> (info "(Emacs) Regexps")
>> ‘^’
>> ‘$’
>>
>> and (info "(Emacs) Regexp Backslash")
>> ‘\`’
>> ‘\'’
>
> It seems like this is a fairly common question/misunderstanding.
> ^ and $ were even used in the Emacs source code for a long time
> in places where \` and \' are more appropriate.
>
> It would be good to add cross-refs here (both directions), and to
> explicitly point out what the difference is, and that while the
> effect can sometimes be similar, \`...\' is often what you want
> when matching strings.
The elisp manual is better for this than the Emacs manual; I suggest the
Emacs manual section on regexp be replaced by a cross-reference to the
elisp manual.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-23 20:23 include Ada Reference Manual info files in ada-mode ELPA package? Stephen Leake
2014-09-23 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-24 10:14 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-24 19:41 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-24 21:57 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-28 4:12 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-28 9:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-28 14:00 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-28 14:51 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-28 16:26 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2014-09-28 16:25 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-28 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-29 13:22 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-29 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
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