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Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 14:19:30 -0700
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On 11/1/19 6:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
you would have to write "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)" which is slower and messier, although 
perhaps easier to understand.
Yes, it's easier to understand, so I prefer that we use it.


I find "[^z-a]" to be signficantly easier to understand than "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)".

But since the concept is useful, how about if we create an escape for it? For example, we could establish \! as a regexp that matches any single character. This be more readable than either [^z-a] or \(?:.\|
\), and would surely help performance as well as readability.



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