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

Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions." [10/Aug  2:25am +02] wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> 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).
>
> And it seems that the docstring and the implementation were
> contradictory since they were both introduced in the same commit in
> 2024.  Seems it's too late to change this and we should fix that
> docstring.
>
> @Sean in case it is unclear (because the "^^" seems to appear at the
> wrong place): we mean the "\\" in "gnus\\.org".

Thanks all, I think I've fixed both issues.

-- 
Sean Whitton