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Re: why auto-mode-alist's regex ends in \\'


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: why auto-mode-alist's regex ends in \\'
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:58:56 +0200
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Xah wrote:
By default, auto-mode-alist has a element:

 ("\\.png\\'" . image-mode)

why is it not the following instead?

 ("\\.png$" . image-mode)

I can't see how file name would end in a “'”, but apparently all
regexes there is like that. Emacs's doc node Choosing Modes doesn't
seems to explain this.

Thanks.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

See

  (info "(elisp) Syntax of Regexps")

\' matches end of string
$ matches end of line




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