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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:43:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 6390 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6390 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:03:45 +0200

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, but that does not apply to the situation I am talking about.

No, it is exactly what you want.

> But since misunderstandings are great here I might clarify the
> situation: I am thinking about situations where you want to edit a
> regexp. One such situation is for example editing the isearch regexp.

You want to edit a (kind of) print representation of a string, not a
quoted regexp (the only purpose of which is to create a regexp that
matches exactly a given string).

Andreas.

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