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Re: c-forward-sws: Is the code right?


From: Andy Moreton
Subject: Re: c-forward-sws: Is the code right?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:13:53 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (windows-nt)

On Mon 02 Apr 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I've just commented these "a\\`"s everywhere, and committed the fixes to
>> master.
>
> Maybe we should have a
>
>     (defconst empty-regexp "\\`\\'a"
>       "Regular expression which cannot match anything.")
>
> in subr.el?

Perhaps "nomatch-regexp" would be a better name ? There are several
regexp constructs that match an empty string, rather than failing to
match anything.

    AndyM




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