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From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg?
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:41:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50810110441o2c092f48y36ab5c9caa3ceefd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb6e77aa-2bf0-49c6-8ff4-629e235e624e@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> the regexp-opt accept a second argument of "'word", but it doesn't
> accept "'symbol"?
>
> Shouldn't it?

Would not the semantics be exactly the same?

But one thing I think would be useful is to be able to use numbers for
the PAREN argument to get an explicitly numbered regexp group back.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-11 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-11 10:02 regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? Xah
2008-10-11 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-10-11 12:10   ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-11 12:20     ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-11 13:01       ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-11 14:03         ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]   ` <mailman.850.1223727025.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-12  1:45     ` Tim X
2008-10-12 10:17       ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]       ` <mailman.880.1223806646.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-13  7:48         ` Tim X

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