Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps]

Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:23:04 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Unquoted special characters in regexps
> 
> Section 34.3.1.1 (Special Characters in Regular Expressions) of the
> Elisp manual says:
> 
> *Please note:* For historical compatibility, special characters are
> treated as ordinary ones if they are in contexts where their special
> meanings make no sense. ...  It is poor practice to depend on this
> behavior; quote the special character anyway, regardless of where it
> appears.
> 
> The three patches below eliminate spurious occurrences of such practice:
> 
> 	* font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2)
> 	* emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-check-any, rx-check-not)
> 	* generic-x.el (reg-generic-mode): Quote "]"s in regexps when
> 	they have no special meaning.

Thanks, I installed these.

Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps]

[martin rudalics]

 >>The three patches below eliminate spurious occurrences of such practice:
 >>
 >>	* font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2)
 >>	* emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-check-any, rx-check-not)
 >>	* generic-x.el (reg-generic-mode): Quote "]"s in regexps when
 >>	they have no special meaning.
 >
 >
 > Thanks, I installed these.

I'm confused that you installed these.  The current thread on this went
in the opposite direction.

Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Unquoted special characters in regexps]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:46:28 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC:  rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  >>The three patches below eliminate spurious occurrences of such practice:
>  >>
>  >>	* font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2)
>  >>	* emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-check-any, rx-check-not)
>  >>	* generic-x.el (reg-generic-mode): Quote "]"s in regexps when
>  >>	they have no special meaning.
>  >
>  >
>  > Thanks, I installed these.
> 
> I'm confused that you installed these.  The current thread on this went
> in the opposite direction.

I don't follow the thread.  I installed that patch because Richard
asked me to.