From: Luc Teirlinck Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:23:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Regexp Special): Use @samp for regular expressions that are not in X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~3666 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba44fca9cd7716cb93ec4fc914f917dd3fad1442;p=emacs.git (Regexp Special): Use @samp for regular expressions that are not in Lisp syntax. --- diff --git a/lispref/searching.texi b/lispref/searching.texi index 88009152cc0..9b80fdfd930 100644 --- a/lispref/searching.texi +++ b/lispref/searching.texi @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ never remove the special meaning of @samp{-} or @samp{]}. So you should not quote these characters when they have no special meaning either. This would not clarify anything, since backslashes can legitimately precede these characters where they @emph{have} special -meaning, as in @code{[^\]} (@code{"[^\\]"} for Lisp string syntax), +meaning, as in @samp{[^\]} (@code{"[^\\]"} for Lisp string syntax), which matches any single character except a backslash. In practice, most @samp{]} that occur in regular expressions close a @@ -485,8 +485,8 @@ regular expression may try to match a complex pattern of literal @samp{[} and @samp{]}. In such situations, it sometimes may be necessary to carefully parse the regexp from the start to determine which square brackets enclose a character alternative. For example, -@code{[^][]]} consists of the complemented character alternative -@code{[^][]} (which matches any single character that is not a square +@samp{[^][]]} consists of the complemented character alternative +@samp{[^][]} (which matches any single character that is not a square bracket), followed by a literal @samp{]}. The exact rules are that at the beginning of a regexp, @samp{[} is