Re: recentf exclude question

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.09.2009 um 03:07 schrieb B. T. Raven:

> Your first regular expression in the list with bar disjunction  
> doesn't have a backtick to match the tick before the double quote;  
> is this on purpose?


What you call a "backtick" are apostrophes ('`' are called  
backticks). And neither matches. \' (or escaped \\') is a regular  
expression for a word's end. So

        "\\.t\\(ex\\|xt\\)\\'"

stands for all words which end in '.tex' or '.txt'.

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