From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Subject: RE: another newbie question -- auto-mode-alist regexp
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:27:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209231925150.11003-100000@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F5032E0B0F@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net>
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Bingham, Jay wrote:
> 1. The \\ means make the next character literal. Two are required
> because the string is parsed before it is placed in the variable if
> there are not two then the single \ gets stripped out and the
> literalness is lost. So \. becomes just . (which means match any
> character) while \\. becomes \. (which means find a dot).
i knew that part. what i didn't understand was the function of
the double-escaped sinqle quote: \\'. what does *that* represent?
the way it's used suggests something related to end-of-string,
but doesn't the "$" already serve that purpose?
rday
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2002-09-23 22:59 another newbie question -- auto-mode-alist regexp Bingham, Jay
2002-09-23 23:27 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2002-09-23 23:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
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2002-09-23 23:56 ` Barry Margolin
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2002-09-23 23:15 ` Michael Slass
2002-09-23 23:17 ` Michael Slass
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2002-09-23 22:43 Robert P. J. Day
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