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From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:44:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyo8xvfswk.fsf@Lumet.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 321C5595-5EBF-4231-9179-FE1CA4A412F7@acm.org


Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> '.' is not special inside []; you would have to write "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)"
> which is slower and messier, although perhaps easier to
> understand. [^z-a] is mentioned in the manual, by the way.

I did not know about this either. FWIW the manual says: 

    However, the lower bound should be at most one greater
    than the upper bound; for example, ‘[c-a]’ should be
    avoided. 

So [^b-a] would be preferred over [^z-a].

-- 

Howard




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-23 13:33 icalendar.el bug fix patch Rajeev Narang via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-01  9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 10:51   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-01 13:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 11:12   ` Rajeev Narang via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-01 13:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 13:24       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-01 13:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 21:19           ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-01 21:38             ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-02 18:39             ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-03 13:21               ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-03 16:55                 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-03 19:55               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 20:54                 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-03 21:10                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 21:32                     ` Juri Linkov
     [not found]                     ` <E81C3456-834F-469D-B8CA-80B1CDD311F8@acm.org>
2019-11-04  0:50                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-04 11:56                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-04 15:16                           ` Drew Adams
2019-11-03  3:24             ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-03 16:54               ` Drew Adams
2019-11-01 16:44         ` Howard Melman [this message]
2019-11-01 14:30       ` Richard Stallman

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