bug-grep
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: meaning of backslash single-quote?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: meaning of backslash single-quote?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:27:57 +0200
User-agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; )

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > As a quality of implementation issue, I would prefer to get an error message
> > for such an undefined BRE.
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea.

How about documenting it, then?

> It's end-of-buffer, together with \` for beginning of buffer.  It makes 
> a difference from ^ and $ when using -z, IIRC.

This is all news to me, maybe others as well. Wouldn't it make sense to
document it?

Bruno
-- 
In memoriam The 167 political prisoners of Haiti 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilbrun_Guillaume_Sam>



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]