From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: include Ada Reference Manual info files in ada-mode ELPA package?
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:51:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2aflrxd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85d2afhmkv.fsf@stephe-leake.org
Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>>
>>> --- a/admin/archive-contents.el
>>> +++ b/admin/archive-contents.el
>>> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ EXTRAS is an alist with additional metadata.
>>>
>>> PKG is the name of the package and DIR is the directory where it is."
>>> (let* ((mainfile (expand-file-name (concat pkg ".el") dir))
>>> - (files (directory-files dir nil "\\.el\\'")))
>>> + (files (directory-files dir nil "^dir$\\|\\.el\\'")))
>>
>> Please use \` and \' instead of ^ and $.
>
> What is the rationale for that?
File names can contain newlines.
> Is it documented somewhere? I looked for an "elisp style guide" in
> emacs/docs/*, and in various READMEs, but didn't see anything obvious.
That's not a question of style. The meaning is different. Please check
(info "(Emacs) Regexps")
‘^’
is a special character that matches the empty string, but only at
the beginning of a line in the text being matched. Otherwise it
fails to match anything. Thus, ‘^foo’ matches a ‘foo’ that occurs
at the beginning of a line.
For historical compatibility reasons, ‘^’ can be used with this
meaning only at the beginning of the regular expression, or after
‘\(’ or ‘\|’.
‘$’
is similar to ‘^’ but matches only at the end of a line. Thus,
‘x+$’ matches a string of one ‘x’ or more at the end of a line.
For historical compatibility reasons, ‘$’ can be used with this
meaning only at the end of the regular expression, or before ‘\)’
or ‘\|’.
and
(info "(Emacs) Regexp Backslash")
‘\`’
matches the empty string, but only at the beginning of the string
or buffer (or its accessible portion) being matched against.
‘\'’
matches the empty string, but only at the end of the string or
buffer (or its accessible portion) being matched against.
> I find ^ and $ more readable (I had to look up \', and did not know
> about \`). Although it does make sense to use the same style within one
> regexp.
It's not a question of style but of meaning.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 14:51 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 [this message]
2014-09-28 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-28 16:26 ` Stephen Leake
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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