Document that [:cntrl:] does not match DEL (Bug#34391)

* doc/lispref/searching.texi (Character Classes):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx):
Document that [:cntrl:] excludes DEL.
* test/src/regex-emacs-tests.el (regex-tests-PTESTS-whitelist):
Swap misplaced comments and fix wrong code for DEL.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
index 05fc32820533bf3edf46624bf105af26fa0f2238..cfbd2449b13e6e0a75175a4d42d7fcb51a8c77cb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ tabs, and other characters whose Unicode @samp{general-category}
 property (@pxref{Character Properties}) indicates they are spacing
 separators.
 @item [:cntrl:]
-This matches any @acronym{ASCII} control character.
+This matches any character whose code is in the range 0--31.
 @item [:digit:]
 This matches @samp{0} through @samp{9}.  Thus, @samp{[-+[:digit:]]}
 matches any digit, as well as @samp{+} and @samp{-}.

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el
index 8b4551d0d36e62f751cadaecc23c8f6e7b58e6ac..3fa0204a1a23a4ba3b83ee6315dc557a637f62fb 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ CHAR
      matches 0 through 9.
 
 `control', `cntrl'
-     matches ASCII control characters.
+     matches any character whose code is in the range 0-31.
 
 `hex-digit', `hex', `xdigit'
      matches 0 through 9, a through f and A through F.

diff --git a/test/src/regex-emacs-tests.el b/test/src/regex-emacs-tests.el
index e84af6b131b98ba8c562a4f0c61d7190999a259e..9a403165734bd39c6d573c80ea493de3775bb98f 100644 (file)
--- a/test/src/regex-emacs-tests.el
+++ b/test/src/regex-emacs-tests.el
@@ -555,11 +555,11 @@ differences in behavior.")
 
 (defconst regex-tests-PTESTS-whitelist
   [
-   ;; emacs doesn't barf on weird ranges such as [b-a], but simply
-   ;; fails to match
+   ;; emacs doesn't see DEL (0x7f) as a [:cntrl:] character
    138
 
-   ;; emacs doesn't see DEL (0x78) as a [:cntrl:] character
+   ;; emacs doesn't barf on weird ranges such as [b-a], but simply
+   ;; fails to match
    168
   ]
   "Line numbers in the PTESTS test that should be skipped.  These