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Backslash regexp in Elisp manual

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Arni Magnusson <arnima <at> hafro.is>
Subject: bug#6743: closed (Re: bug#6743: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:59:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#6743: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual

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

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Arni Magnusson <arnima <at> hafro.is>
Cc: 6743-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6743: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:58:17 +0200

> Sorry, my mistake. The sentence is correct in the manual.

Thanks for the report anyway.

    Juanma

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From: Arni Magnusson <arnima <at> hafro.is>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Backslash regexp in Elisp manual
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:31:30 +0000 (UTC)

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

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