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Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch


From: Howard Melman
Subject: Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:44:27 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (darwin)

Mattias Engdegård <address@hidden> 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




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