From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg?
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r66m9ky7.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdvy8u2r.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (Tim X.'s message of "Sun\, 12 Oct 2008 12\:45\:32 +1100")
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> In emacs 23, it appears to be working as it is supposed to. It does take
> an arbitrary symbol, but the symbol "'words" has special meaning over just a
> non-nil value e.g.
The idea was that 'symbol or 'symbols should also have a special meaning.
> ELISP> (regexp-opt '("This" "That" "Those") 'symbol)
> "\\(Th\\(?:at\\|is\\|ose\\)\\)"
should return "\\_<\\(Th\\(?:at\\|is\\|ose\\)\\)\\_>" instead.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-12 10:17 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
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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.880.1223806646.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-13 7:48 ` Tim X
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