From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55773: Emacs 29.0.50:: allow single-quoted chars in docstring Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:25:29 +1200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28358"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: 55773@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 01:26:10 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuCg-0007Ex-06 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:26:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuCe-0006jh-Eu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuCY-0006jY-Ii for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuCY-00025v-8j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuCY-0002jJ-2h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Phil Sainty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 55773 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 55773-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B55773.165421233610458 (code B ref 55773); Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 55773) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Jun 2022 23:25:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54777 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuC7-0002ib-Pt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-4.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.59]:54359) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuC5-0002iS-Ri for 55773@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=3675 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-4.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwuC2-0007pZ-A0; Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:25:30 +1200 Original-Received: from ip-116-251-140-135.kinect.net.nz ([116.251.140.135]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:25:29 +1200 In-Reply-To: X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:233572 Archived-At: On 2022-06-03 07:49, Andreas Röhler wrote: > Need to display single-quoted chars in docstring Nowadays you need to escape literal apostrophes in docstrings like this: result = some_function_that_takes_arguments( \\='a\\=', \\='b\\=', \\='c\\=', \\='d\\=', \\='e\\=', \\='f\\=' ) Setting `text-quoting-style' to grave will prevent you from getting bitten by automated curly-quote substitutions in help buffers (but of course won't help you to remember to escape things when writing docstrings). See also: (info "(elisp)Text Quoting Style")