Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX] Re: auctex.el.in missing in snapshots

[David Kastrup]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, May 11 2005, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
> [...]
>>> Nice.  I used TAGs like 20050511-a which doesn't work as it is.  Do
>>> you see any problem with this modification of the sed expression?
>>> -   '/^[-0-9]*$$/s//-D &/'
>>> +   '/^\([0-9]*\)[-a-z]*$$/s//-D \1/'
>>
>> Well, it will stop the TAG=`date --iso` stuff from working, but as
>> long as we are the only people thinking up TAG names, this should not
>> matter too much.  What is the rationale behind it?
>
> To allow appending "-a"..."-z" like in 20050511-a.

I can read regular expressions, thank you, even if you had not
explicitly spelled out the kind of TAG, anyway.  What is the rationale
behind appending "-a"..."-z" like in 20050511-a?

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