Re: emacs-31 f561bc6c370: ; * etc/NEWS: Use a non-commercial example.

On Aug 09 2026, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>      (add-to-list 'browse-url-transform-alist
>> -                 '("www.google.com" . "www.duckduckgo.com"))
>> +                 '("vim\\.org/.*" . "gnu\\.org/software/emacs/"))
>                               ^^
>
> Is this \\ really correct?

Note that the doc string of browse-url-transform-alist is wrong: the
replacement text is passed to replace-match (not string-match) with
LITERAL = t, so that back references are _not_ possible (and hence the
backslash is not special).

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