Subject: bug#6743: closed (Re: bug#6743: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:59:02 +0000

Your bug report

#6743: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual

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

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Subject: Re: bug#6743: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual
From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
To: Arni Magnusson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:58:17 +0200
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> Sorry, my mistake. The sentence is correct in the manual.

Thanks for the report anyway.

    Juanma

Subject: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual
From: Arni Magnusson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:31:30 +0000 (UTC)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The current version (23.2) of the Elisp manual 
(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/texi/elisp.texi.tar.gz) has a 
minor typo in Section 34.3.1.1 Special Characters in Regular Expressions 
(searching.texi) where

   Therefore, the read syntax for a regular expression matching
   @samp{\} is @code{"\\\\"}.

should be

   Therefore, the read syntax for a regular expression matching
   @samp{\\} is @code{"\\\\"}.

Arni