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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 25195@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25195: 25.1; Index backslash for escape of left-margin paren
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:36:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ssjv3i1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7czk9jk.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:21:19 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> So I don't think this is something that needs expounding upon; closing.

I don't we need to "expound" on anything, the report just asks about
indexing.  So with something like the diff below, if someone sees 

"bla bla
\(foo bar)"

And they wonder "what's that \( thing for?", they could do i \( RET to
find the right spot in the manual.

--- i/doc/emacs/programs.texi
+++ w/doc/emacs/programs.texi
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ Left Margin Paren
 affect the contents of the string, but will prevent that opening
 delimiter from starting a defun.  Here's an example:
 
+@cindex \( in strings
 @example
   (insert "Foo:
 \(bar)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-27 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-13 21:04 bug#25195: 25.1; Index backslash for escape of left-margin paren Drew Adams
2019-07-27 11:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-27 16:13   ` Drew Adams
2019-07-27 16:36   ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-07-28  9:45     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-30 13:20       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-30 19:10         ` Drew Adams
2019-07-31  4:52         ` Glenn Morris
2019-07-31 12:37           ` Noam Postavsky

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