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Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg?
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Nikolaj Schumacher |
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Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? |
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:17:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) |
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> In emacs 23, it appears to be working as it is supposed to. It does take
> an arbitrary symbol, but the symbol "'words" has special meaning over just a
> non-nil value e.g.
The idea was that 'symbol or 'symbols should also have a special meaning.
> ELISP> (regexp-opt '("This" "That" "Those") 'symbol)
> "\\(Th\\(?:at\\|is\\|ose\\)\\)"
should return "\\_<\\(Th\\(?:at\\|is\\|ose\\)\\)\\_>" instead.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher