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Re: meaning of backslash single-quote?


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: meaning of backslash single-quote?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:25:19 +0200
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On 07/28/2011 02:27 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>  I don't think this is a good idea.
How about documenting it, then?

Yes, that's a good idea. :)

>  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?

The IIRC is because I'm not sure how much of it is a bug, and how the semantics differ from glibc's matcher. So I'm wary of documenting it and setting it in stone before I have some time to understand if it needs a fix.

Paolo



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