GNU bug report logs - #6390
Should not regexp-quote quote newline?

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Message #35 received at 6390 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6390 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:47:22 +0200

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 17:34, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps people wants it this way, but then I would suggest that the
>> doc strings tells about the current behaviour.
>
> Do you want the docstring for regexp-quote to list every single
> character that it does not quote because they aren't special in
> regexps? That's gonna be a long long list.

Not necessarily ... ;-)

I thinking about those that are normally quoted in strings.

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