bug#18117: 24.3; tex-mode.el tex-font-lock-verb docstring backslash

bug#18117: 24.3; tex-mode.el tex-font-lock-verb docstring backslash

[Kevin Ryde]

Doing

    (require 'tex-mode)
    C-h f tex-font-lock-verb

shows

    Place syntax table properties on the ^Kerb construct.

where I expected to see \verb.  Perhaps the backslash should be escaped

  "Place syntax table properties on the \\=\\verb construct.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2014-06-07 on babin, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11599904
Configured using:
 `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu'
 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes'
 '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--without-gconf'
 '--without-gsettings' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2
 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
 -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_AU.utf8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

bug#18117: 24.3; tex-mode.el tex-font-lock-verb docstring backslash

[Andreas Schwab]

Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin@yahoo.com.au> writes:

> Doing
>
>     (require 'tex-mode)
>     C-h f tex-font-lock-verb
>
> shows
>
>     Place syntax table properties on the ^Kerb construct.
>
> where I expected to see \verb.  Perhaps the backslash should be escaped

Thanks, fixed.

>   "Place syntax table properties on the \\=\\verb construct.

There is no need for \= though, since \v isn't special to
substitute-command-keys.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."

bug#18117: 24.3; tex-mode.el tex-font-lock-verb docstring backslash

[Kevin Ryde]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
> There is no need for \= though, since \v isn't special to
> substitute-command-keys.

Would it be prudent to protect against potential new kinds of \
expansions?  Or anything new would not be alphabeticals?

(I pondered even a checkdoc.el test which could ask for no backslashing
except the defined key seq etc forms.  Leaving room for new kinds of
expansions in the future could be good, but maybe they would never be
alnums.)