Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[Andreas Schwab]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>>>However, it does play a special role in the syntax of regexps,
>>>and it is not necessarily a bad thing for users to think of it
>>>as a special character.
>> There are more characters like this, ie. ':' and '-', which both play a
>> special role in character sets, but not elsewhere.
>
> My Emacs has
>
> (regexp-quote "]") => "\\]"
> (regexp-quote "-") => "-"
> (regexp-quote ":") => ":"
>
> I do like my Emacs.

Bugs can be fixed.

Andreas.

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