;;; rx.el --- sexp notation for regular expressions
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-;; 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
;; Maintainer: FSF
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;;; Commentary:
(| . or) ; SRE
(not-newline . ".")
(nonl . not-newline) ; SRE
- (anything . ".\\|\n")
+ (anything . "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)")
(any . (rx-any 1 nil rx-check-any)) ; inconsistent with SRE
(in . any)
(char . any) ; sregex
This function may return false negatives, but it will not
return false positives. It is nevertheless useful in
-situations where an efficiency shortcut can be taken iff a
+situations where an efficiency shortcut can be taken only if a
regexp is atomic. The function can be improved to detect
more cases of atomic regexps. Presently, this function
detects the following categories of atomic regexp;
`not-newline', `nonl'
matches any character except a newline.
- .
+
`anything'
matches any character