Subject: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:00:51 +0200

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> That the regexp-quoted string includes the new line character instead
>> of the two chararcers \n.
>
> How does that fit into the purpose of regexp-quote?

Yes, that is a good question. That is why I said I am not sure and
maybe there should be another function to do that backslash quoting I
am asking for.