Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: > SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >> apropos.el/hyper-apropos.el hate C++[1]. This has never worked >> right, but earlier XEmacsen didn't puke quite this badly. > What do you call "working right"? Rejecting this regexp looks right > to me. Did you mean to write `c\+\+'? I know escaping the plusses works, but it's unintuitive. It's almost certain that two consecutive plusses in that context are being used to hunt for C++ support.

If it's going to puke and die anyway, why not filter the regexp through something that escapes two consecutive plusses?