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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs regexp scan (Sep 29)
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:20:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy2xzrzls.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k19j4fw3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:59:24 +0300")

> That's it.  And I personally can see no confusion in the likes of
> "[-+]", whereas I did need to consult the manual to learn that "[+-]"
> is also right.  So at least for me, the confusion worked the other way
> around.

As discussed here a while back, putting `-` as the last char is actually
the only choice which always works (because it can't be the first char
when that first char has to be `]`), so I recommend to always put `-` as
the last char.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-05 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-29 19:39 Emacs regexp scan (Sep 29) Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-04 21:42 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-05  8:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05  9:37     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-05 10:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 15:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-05 16:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05  9:52     ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-05 10:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 15:20         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-10-05 16:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-06 13:42             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-06 18:01               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 19:19         ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-05 19:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 19:50             ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-06 17:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-06 17:33                 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-06 18:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-06 19:19                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-06 19:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 16:59     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-05 18:52       ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-05 10:03   ` Mattias Engdegård

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