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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2019-03-21 08:27:39 -0400
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2019-03-21 08:27:39 -0400
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* doc: Recommend putting '-' as last char in Emacs charset regexps
* doc/lispref/searching.texi (Regexp Special): * doc/emacs/search.texi (Regexps): Recommend - as last char in [...].
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@@ -406,13 +406,13 @@ Note also that the usual regexp special characters are not special inside a
character alternative. A completely different set of characters is
special inside character alternatives: @samp{]}, @samp{-} and @samp{^}.
-To include a @samp{]} in a character alternative, you must make it the
-first character. For example, @samp{[]a]} matches @samp{]} or @samp{a}.
-To include a @samp{-}, write @samp{-} as the first or last character of
-the character alternative, or put it after a range. Thus, @samp{[]-]}
-matches both @samp{]} and @samp{-}. (As explained below, you cannot
-use @samp{\]} to include a @samp{]} inside a character alternative,
-since @samp{\} is not special there.)
+To include a @samp{]} in a character alternative, you must make it the first
+character. For example, @samp{[]a]} matches @samp{]} or @samp{a}. To include
+a @samp{-}, write @samp{-} as the last character of the character alternative,
+tho you can also put it first or after a range. Thus, @samp{[]-]} matches both
+@samp{]} and @samp{-}. (As explained below, you cannot use @samp{\]} to
+include a @samp{]} inside a character alternative, since @samp{\} is not
+special there.)
To include @samp{^} in a character alternative, put it anywhere but at
the beginning.