Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch

[Juri Linkov]

>> what would be an equivalent for specifying regexp modifiers in Emacs Lisp?
>> Maybe something like
>>
>>   (let ((regexp-modifiers "s"))
>>     (string-match "." string))
>
> That will affect all the regexp matching that will happen during
> execution of this code, so it will require changes in debug.el and
> edebug.el, and probably in elp.el and trace.el as well to "reset" the
> var before running innocent code.
>
> Also, it can be problematic for cases where we combine/concatenate
> several regexp chunks.

In /regexp/s syntax the modifiers are inseparable from regexp.
What would be an equivalent in Emacs, maybe text properties?

  (string-match (propertize "." 'regexp-modifiers 'newline) string)