Re: What's wrong with this regexp?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Martin Monsorno <monsorno@gmx.de> writes:

>> Yes, but it's a matter of the lisp reader's context: You have to
>> double most occurrences of `\' in order to get them into a lisp
>> expression.  What you type in the minibuffer as "\(a\|b\)" must become
>> "\\(a\\|b\\)" when used in a string expression in elisp.
>
> I had the same problem a few days ago, and finally found the solution
> by searching through some of the "other peoples .gnus-files" on the
> net. I suppose, just one little example with "\\(To\\|cc\\)" in the
> info file about mail-splitting would help very much.

Well, the examples in that section of the manual does use \\...

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