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Ill-formed regular expression is constructed in forward-paragraph.

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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> amu.edu.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 19873 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19873: Ill-formed regular expression is constructed in forward-paragraph.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:48:10 +0100

On 2017-02-26, at 17:57, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> amu.edu.pl>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 17:44:51 +0100
>> Cc: 19873 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> First of all, my Emacs has this as paragraph-start:
>> 
>> "\\|[ 	]*$"
>> 
>> and this as paragraph-separate:
>> 
>> "[ 	]*$"
>> 
>> and frankly speaking, I'm not sure why they differ at all (by default).
>
> I believe this is explained in the Emacs manual, node "Paragraphs".
> In a nutshell, these two regexps have different purposes.

My bad, you're right.  Still, this has little to do with the bug itself.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

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