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RE: another newbie question -- auto-mode-alist regexp
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Robert P. J. Day |
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RE: another newbie question -- auto-mode-alist regexp |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:27:14 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Bingham, Jay wrote:
> 1. The \\ means make the next character literal. Two are required
> because the string is parsed before it is placed in the variable if
> there are not two then the single \ gets stripped out and the
> literalness is lost. So \. becomes just . (which means match any
> character) while \\. becomes \. (which means find a dot).
i knew that part. what i didn't understand was the function of
the double-escaped sinqle quote: \\'. what does *that* represent?
the way it's used suggests something related to end-of-string,
but doesn't the "$" already serve that purpose?
rday