Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[martin rudalics]

>>>It is part of it, just like the leading '['.
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>>As a consequence, in your model "[" is a valid regexp too.
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> Where did I write that?  Please expand.

You argue that `]' is part of a character alternative just like the
leading `['.  You further argue that "]" is a valid regular expression
outside a character alternative.  Hence, "[" must be a valid regular
expression outside a character alternative too.  Qed.

> You are free to contribute patches.

I certainly don't want to.  In my opinion the manual is correct here.