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-rw-r--r--lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el
index 7140c997283..5e8d2e084ff 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el
@@ -334,12 +334,9 @@ This should be set in an Emacs Lisp file's local variables."
;; "[.!?]" is for noun at end of a sentence, since those chars
;; are symbol syntax in emacs-lisp-mode and so don't match \\_>.
;; The \" allows it to be the last sentence in a docstring too.
- (let ((expr "\\_<\\(")
- (l checkdoc-proper-noun-list))
- (while l
- (setq expr (concat expr (car l) (if (cdr l) "\\|" ""))
- l (cdr l)))
- (concat expr "\\)\\(\\_>\\|[.!?][ \t\n\"]\\)"))
+ (concat "\\_<"
+ (regexp-opt checkdoc-proper-noun-list t)
+ "\\(\\_>\\|[.!?][ \t\n\"]\\)")
"Regular expression derived from `checkdoc-proper-noun-regexp'.")
(defvar checkdoc-common-verbs-regexp nil