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RE: About "/" in the regexp
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: About "/" in the regexp |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:01:52 -0800 |
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (append
> ;; File name (within directory) starts with a dot.
> '(("/\\.[^/]*\\'" . fundamental-mode)
> ;; File name has no dot.
> ("/[^\\./]*\\'" . fundamental-mode)
> ...)
> auto-mode-alist))
>
> I'm confused about the first "/" in the two regular
> expressions. Why is there a slash character? Can anybody
> help? Thanks.
It's for a file name "within [a] directory", e.g., /foobar.
The / is the directory separator.