[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6390: closed (Should not regexp-quote quote newline?)

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> Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
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> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:42:14 +0200
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> To illustrate the problem eval this
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> (progn
>   (setq x (regexp-quote "a
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>   (message "length x=%d" (length x)))
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> The length of x will be 3 because the string returned by regexp-quote
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> Would it not be more practical if the result was "a\nb"?
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> Re: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline?
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> Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:30:34 -0400
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> I don't see a need to keep open this particular report, which was marked
> "wontfix" some time ago.
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