Subject: Re: bug#4392: (Regexp Functions): The PAREN argument to `regexp-opt' can be `symbols'.

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:49:16 -0400

Version: 24.1

There seems no point keeping this report open. A SYMBOLS
option was added 2010-10-07, despire the following:

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> As the person responsible for adding the `words' value to PAREN, I'm
> going to reject this request.  I think the `words' value was itself
> a mistake.  It's just as easy to add (concat "\\<" ... "\\>") around the
> call to regexp-opt.  Actually, the whole `paren' argument should
> disappear (i.e. be hardcoded to "\\(?:").