From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 25195@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25195: 25.1; Index backslash for escape of left-margin paren
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7czk9jk.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9872788-7e31-4f91-8166-1dfeaaf10aef@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:04:36 -0800 (PST)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The Emacs manual, node `Left Margin Convention', seems to be the only
> place that the convention of a paren in column 0 is documented. The
> backslash escaping is not indexed however - it should be.
Hm... Well, it does say that if you have a parent in column 0, then
it's treated specially. If you have
"bla bla
\(foo bar)"
then the ( isn't in column zero, and \( => ( in this context.
So I'm not sure this is even a convention; it's just a work-around. And
what character to use in what language to get a similar effect is surely
language-dependent?
So I don't think this is something that needs expounding upon; closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-27 11:21 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 [this message]
2019-07-27 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-27 16:36 ` Noam Postavsky
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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