From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23867: 25.1.50; Doc string containing `\N' Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:56:57 +0200 Message-ID: <577D1C39.9080009@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467817882 18411 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2016 15:11:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:11:22 +0000 (UTC) To: 23867@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 17:11:11 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoTm-0008Ff-C2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:11:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoTl-0000BG-NS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoH9-0002Ro-RF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoH4-0002eH-Nf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoH4-0002eB-K3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoH3-0001Fj-UR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:58:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:58:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23867 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 23867-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23867.14678170294751 (code B ref 23867); Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:58:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23867) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jul 2016 14:57:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39647 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoGC-0001EZ-Ll for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:42034) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bKoGA-0001E3-PS for 23867@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB431614DD for <23867@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 8zOiOWwQgw-N for <23867@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183BD1614D5 for <23867@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id jW6vrAZDSFHz for <23867@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.35] (89-159-79-138.rev.numericable.fr [89.159.79.138]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A29DE1614D0 for <23867@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:56:59 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:120497 Archived-At: > Is it too difficult for \N followed by anything other than { to be > treated (possibly with a warning?) as before (ie, not as an escape)? It could be done, but I'd rather not. lread.c doesn't warn about other stuff, by and large, and any warnings are likely to be ignored anyway. It would be additional complexity for very little benefit. As a general rule Elisp code should not use \X unless \X is documented to be part of an escape sequence, or X is an ASCII punctuation character that might otherwise confuse Emacs. (By the way, are the punctuation characters still an issue? I've forgotten what their problem was or is.)