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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "MON KEY" <monkey@sandpframing.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: regexp-quote missing escapes in grouping constructs - Bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:21:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3anh9dt2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2afcfda0806131036n58d584bal495cd7341bcf5c22@mail.gmail.com> (MON KEY's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:36:07 -0400")

> Y. but why are the "?" a"[" and "+" getting escaped regardless of the
> presence of a preceding \ whereas the alternative "|" inside the
> grouping construct isn't?

Please read the Elisp manual's section about regular expressions.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-13 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 23:39 regexp-quote missing escapes in grouping constructs - Bug? St/n_P/rm/n
2008-06-13  6:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 17:36   ` MON KEY
2008-06-13 22:21     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-14  4:16     ` tomas
2008-06-13  6:20 ` Herbert Euler

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