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Re: Emacs sporadically gets into a state in which M-q wraps lines at apo


From: Matt McClure
Subject: Re: Emacs sporadically gets into a state in which M-q wraps lines at apostrophes
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 14:26:40 -0400

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Christopher Schmidt
<christopher@ch.ristopher.com> wrote:
> Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> \\' is special syntax meaning end of line.
>
> Actually \' matches the empty string at the end of the buffer of string
> being matched against.  $ matches end of line or end of string.

Thanks. I had been misinterpreting the `\\'`. This will help next time
it happens.

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