bug#81555: 30.2; The regular expression parser used by replace-regexp is not escaping certain characters

tags 81555 notabug
close 81555
thanks

Please always use the "Reply to all" function in your MUA and keep the
bug tracker in Cc, thanks.

gargoles <[email protected]> writes:

> Oh, all the regexp engines I dealt with in the past had conditioned me
> to escape the '(' character so I defaulted to it. I see it doesn't
> need to be.
> Apologies for the false positive.

Actually, the backslash makes ( and ) special, have a look at the manual
about backslash constructs[1]

> Thanks for the answer.

You're welcome.

> I'm not sure if I'm responsible for marking the bug as closed,

Anybody can close bug reports, I'm doing this now.

> I can't find any information on it, please do let me know if I am.

Have a look at the "Closing bug reports" section on this page[2].

Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Regexp-Backslash.html
[2]  https://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer.html