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31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error

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From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 77944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#77944: 31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:01:55 +0200

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Version: 31.1
>
> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Gerd,
>
>>> Yes, please try. [[:cntrl:]] is equal to [\\o0000-\\o0037]. Much
>>> more than [\\o0001-\\o0032], so I'd prefer the latter.
>>
>> The second one doesn't work. It gives the error again in M-x man. Also
>> in the shell
>>
>> /Users/gerd/emacs/github/cl-packages % sed -e '/^[\\o0001-\\o0032][\\o0001-\\o0032]*$/d' /dev/null
>> sed: 1: "/^[\\o0001-\\o0032][\\o ...": RE error: invalid character range
>>
>> I guess I had gsed still installed when I tried that in zsh, and forgot
>> to add the /usr/bin/.
>
> Thanks for the check. So I've pushed a patch using [:cntrl:] to
> master. Closing the bug.
>
> Best regards, Michael.

Thanks for the quick fix!

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