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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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:42:14 +0200

To illustrate the problem eval this

(progn
  (setq x (regexp-quote "a
b"))
  (message "length x=%d" (length x)))

The length of x will be 3 because the string returned by regexp-quote
includes a newline.

Would it not be more practical if the result was "a\nb"?
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