GNU bug report logs - #6743
Backslash regexp in Elisp manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Arni Magnusson <arnima <at> hafro.is>

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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