From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n" Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:10:03 -0800 Message-ID: <9C4145152E1B4A9890C4A8DA520A51ED@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291199474 22273 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2010 10:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:31:14 +0000 (UTC) To: 7524@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 11:31:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNjxr-0001zA-NV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:31:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNjxp-0002nO-Hw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:10:00 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcuRHmSiJ+feHayRQsq9mJY99olfgQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:07:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42051 Archived-At: Evaluate this: `("Foo" . (lambda () "Four score and seven years ago Our forefathers brought forth etc. Etc., etc., etc." (message "HOWDY"))) That doc string is a literal string with two embedded newline chars. Evaluation converts each of those chars to a string of two chars: "\n": ("Foo" lambda nil "Four score and seven years ago\nOur forefathers brought forth etc.\nEtc., etc., etc." (message "Howdy")) Shouldn't happen. (This is particularly messy when used in defcustom values.) In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-11-30 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include'