Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37842:2b1f94f72990
Use Lisp escape sequences only inside string syntax.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 20 May 2001 17:19:47 +0000 |
| parents | 43fffbcb87d0 |
| children | e8365cfcb741 |
| files | lispref/searching.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/searching.texi Sun May 20 17:18:41 2001 +0000 +++ b/lispref/searching.texi Sun May 20 17:19:47 2001 +0000 @@ -311,11 +311,14 @@ To include @samp{^} in a character alternative, put it anywhere but at the beginning. -The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in the -same character set (@pxref{Character Sets}). Thus, @samp{[\x8e0-\x97c]} -is invalid because character 0x8e0 (@samp{a} with grave accent) is in -the Emacs character set for Latin-1 but the character 0x97c (@samp{u} -with diaeresis) is in the Emacs character set for Latin-2. +The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in +the same character set (@pxref{Character Sets}). Thus, +@code{"[\x8e0-\x97c]"} is invalid because character 0x8e0 (@samp{a} +with grave accent) is in the Emacs character set for Latin-1 but the +character 0x97c (@samp{u} with diaeresis) is in the Emacs character +set for Latin-2. (We use Lisp string syntax to write that example, +and a few others in the next few paragraphs, in order to include hex +escape sequences in them.) If a range starts with a unibyte character @var{c} and ends with a multibyte character @var{c2}, the range is divided into two parts: one @@ -324,10 +327,10 @@ belongs. You cannot always match all non-@sc{ascii} characters with the regular -expression @samp{[\200-\377]}. This works when searching a unibyte +expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}. This works when searching a unibyte buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a multibyte buffer or string, because many non-@sc{ascii} characters have codes -above octal 0377. However, the regular expression @samp{[^\000-\177]} +above octal 0377. However, the regular expression @code{"[^\000-\177]"} does match all non-@sc{ascii} characters (see below regarding @samp{^}), in both multibyte and unibyte representations, because only the @sc{ascii} characters are excluded. @@ -361,7 +364,7 @@ the beginning of a line. When matching a string instead of a buffer, @samp{^} matches at the -beginning of the string or after a newline character @samp{\n}. +beginning of the string or after a newline character. For historical compatibility reasons, @samp{^} can be used only at the beginning of the regular expression, or after @samp{\(} or @samp{\|}. @@ -373,7 +376,7 @@ @samp{x+$} matches a string of one @samp{x} or more at the end of a line. When matching a string instead of a buffer, @samp{$} matches at the end -of the string or before a newline character @samp{\n}. +of the string or before a newline character. For historical compatibility reasons, @samp{$} can be used only at the end of the regular expression, or before @samp{\)} or @samp{\|}.