Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[Andreas Schwab]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab schrieb:
>> This is incorrect.  ']' is only special in a bracket expression (like
>> '-').
>
> `]' is _also_ special in a character alternative,

A bracket expression has a completely different set of special characters.
For example, '\' and '$' are not special there.

> `-' is special _only_ in a character alternative.

Just like ']'.

Andreas.

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