From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:17:12 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87smcvex2v.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <200405291737.i4THbPJ06689@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <873c5jug73.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87659snbd8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <878yeoadpd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087374011 30287 80.91.224.253 (16 Jun 2004 08:20:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 16 10:20:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaVeL-0004dG-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:20:01 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaVeL-00078w-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:20:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BaVfK-0000Fh-NH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BaVey-0000Ee-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BaVew-0000EL-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BaVew-0000EB-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BaVds-0006ho-TY; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-33-203-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.33.203]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3BDE44F8; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:30:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25023 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25023 Andreas Schwab writes: >> + (if (string-match "\\\\'" to-string) >> + (let (to expr) >> + (while (string-match "\\\\'" to-string) > > That needs more careful treatment, to handle cases like "\\\\'" where one > wants to substitute a backslash followed by a single quote. It seems the regexp from David's version handles it right: (string-match "\\(\\`\\|[^\\]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\\\`") Do you see any problems with it? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/