GNU bug report logs - #8935
24.0.50; `substitute-command-keys' doc

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:30:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.0.50

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8935 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#8935: 24.0.50; `substitute-command-keys' doc
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:27:31 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Actually \ does have a special meaning, which depends on the following
> char (just like \ in regexps).  The difference between that and regexps
> is that in regexp \<char> turns into just <char> when \<char> has no
> special meaning, where it turns into \<char> here.

If you want a \ in a regexp you must write \\, always.  But if you want
to have a \ from substitute-command-keys you just write \, and if you
want \\= you must write \\=\=.  Thus \ by itself is not special here.

Andreas.

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