bug#36167: [PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with [[:xdigit:]]

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Вт, июн 11, 2019 at 07:26, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 
wrote:
> If we're going to make such a change we should be systematic about 
> it. Unfortunately the currently-proposed patches don't handle 
> examples like these:
>
> [A-Fa-f0-9] (in dnd.el)
>
> [0-9a-fA-F.] (in org/org-table.el)
>
> [0-9a-fA-FxXzZ_] (in progmodes/vera-mode.el)

This one doesn't look like hex. At least :xdigit: sure doesn't match X 
and Z. Although this probably could be replaced with [[[:digit:]]xXzZ] 
(didn't test this one). But I imagine such change may better be a 
separate patch, as it's somewhat different from all the other changes.


> (skip-chars-backward "0-9a-fA-F'") (in progmodes/cc-mode.el)

Same here.

> I will cc this message to Mattias Engdegård, as he has a good 
> scanner for regular expressions and patterns. Mattias, the bug-report 
> thread is here:
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/36167

Either way, thanks, I already figured too that there are some regexes 
in a different order. I'm using ack to find them, this should work:

        ack "\[[-09afAF]{9}\]"

I'll post an updated patch later.