Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> However, it does play a special role in the syntax of regexps,
> and it is not necessarily a bad thing for users to think of it
> as a special character.

There are more characters like this, ie. ':' and '-', which both play a
special role in character sets, but not elsewhere.

Andreas.

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