From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 23130@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:13:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r18d201p.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czjxsutu.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:04:13 +0100")
On Feb 08 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Why is `prin1' quoting the "." anyway? It's not a special character for
> the Lisp reader, is it?
The following characters are always escaped in a symbol:
if (c == '\"' || c == '\\' || c == '\''
|| c == ';' || c == '#' || c == '(' || c == ')'
|| c == ',' || c == '.' || c == '`'
|| c == '[' || c == ']' || c == '?' || c <= 040
|| c == NO_BREAK_SPACE
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Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-08 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-27 23:25 bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names Drew Adams
2016-03-28 6:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 13:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 14:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 14:48 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 15:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 15:23 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 16:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-28 17:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-02-08 7:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-08 9:13 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2022-02-08 9:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-08 9:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-09 16:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-09 17:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-09 17:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-09 17:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-09 17:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-14 9:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-14 14:50 ` bug#23130: [External] : " Drew Adams
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