Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[martin rudalics]

> Martin Rudalics wrote:
>
>    Such `]'s should be quoted just like `.', `*', `+', `?', `[', `^',
>    `$', and `\'.
>
> Even if that _would_ be true, `]' should _not_ be quoted as "\\]" but as
> "[]]", as I pointed out earlier.  We are talking about Elisp, not AWK.

The Elisp manual clearly states that "Any other character appearing in a
regular expression is ordinary, unless a `\' precedes it."  Hence,
quoting with a backslash is the canonical method in Elisp.

martin, who doesn't talk AWK.