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Should not regexp-quote quote newline?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#6390: closed (Re: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote
 newline?)
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:31:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 6390-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:30:34 -0400

I don't see a need to keep open this particular report, which was marked
"wontfix" some time ago.

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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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