Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[martin rudalics]

> > The answer is, obviously, that the Elisp read syntax for regexps is the
>
>
> There is no such thing as a read syntax for regexps.  This is not a Lisp
> data type.
>
> Andreas.

From the Elisp manual:

     Therefore, the read syntax for a regular expression matching `\'
     is `"\\\\"'.

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