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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regular expressions and user-escaped characters
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:50:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mshdwvgg.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864j3lyaup.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:32:46 +0100")

On Mon, Dec 02 2024, Joost Kremers wrote:
> You may get away with something like "[^\\][[]", though keep in mind that
> that does not match a ?[ not preceded by a backslash, but rather a ?[
> preceded by a character that is not a backslash.

Mind you, what I forgot to mention: this means that a ?[ at the start of a
string won't be found. A possible solution to that might be to prepend some
character to the string before matching.


-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-02 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-02 22:04 Regular expressions and user-escaped characters Christopher Howard
2024-12-02 22:32 ` Joost Kremers
2024-12-02 22:50   ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2024-12-02 23:09     ` Joost Kremers
2024-12-03 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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