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

From: Xah
Subject: why auto-mode-alist's regex ends in \\'
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:22:27 -0700 (PDT)
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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/

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