Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[Andreas Schwab]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> And I would have troubles to isolate a character alternative when the
> author matches a literal right bracket with `]'.

A bracket expression always starts with an unquoted `['.  When looking at
a `]' you will never know whether it is part of a bracket expression
(independent of whether it is preceded by `\') without first determining
which syntax is currently active (inside or outside of a bracket
expression).

Andreas.

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