Re: [tlug] emacs query/replace and the string that would not bestrung

[Viktor Pavlenko <vvp@example.com>]

>>>>> "TL" == Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> writes:

    TL> and do I really want to know 
    TL> why the ampersand does not 
    TL> need to be escaped? 
    TL> just because? :)

Because it is a regular character. Backslash, on the other hand, is
special and if present (and not escaped by another backslash) makes
the following character special too. So, `&' will match `&', and `\&'
will match nothing because it is not a valid special sequence.

Hope I put it right. Please also see "Syntax of Regular Expressions"
section of emacs manual.

Viktor