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30.0.92; emacs-lisp font-locking word regexp

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From: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 74307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#74307: 30.0.92; emacs-lisp font-locking word regexp
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:49:35 -0600

On Thu, Nov 14 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> we should use something like the below instead?
>
>      (,(rx "\\\\" (or (seq "<" (group-n 1 lisp-mode-symbol) (not "\\\\") ">")
>                       (seq "{" (group-n 1 lisp-mode-symbol) (not "\\\\") "q}"))

Yes, thanks.  (This is my first real-world encounter with rx.  Otherwise
I would have proposed it myself.)

> And similarly for \\[] etc.?

I do not know in what context backslash-quoted right square brackets may
appear in regexps.  But certainly, they do not make sense in the context
of substitute-command-keys either.  So excluding here backslash-quoted
right square brackets is probably for the better, too.

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