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#23867: 25.1.50; Doc string containing `\N' Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467208909 20359 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2016 14:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23867@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tino Calancha , Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 16:01:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG3I-0000dS-I9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:01:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG3E-0002R9-Hz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG39-0002L8-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG33-00073t-Up for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:47850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG33-00073o-S7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG33-000469-MW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:01:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23867 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23867-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23867.146720884115717 (code B ref 23867); Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:01:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23867) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Jun 2016 14:00:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60187 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG2j-00045R-KQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:46054) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bIG2h-00045B-Mj for 23867@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u5TE0WBD002291 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:00:33 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u5TE0WuA011835 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:00:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0006.oracle.com (abhmp0006.oracle.com [141.146.116.12]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u5TE0VtX030191; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:00:31 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:120202 Archived-At: > > Before that "\N" was the same as "N", so there is no point in writing > > that. > > Good point. Thank you. It's a valid point, but it is also wrong. There might be "no point in writing" \N, but there can be a use for having \N act as N - as it always has. Doc strings can be produced by _code_, and that code can escape ordinary characters, for which the escaping should be a no-op. There have been very few exceptions to this in the past - very few characters for which \-escaping is not a no-op. What's the rationale for breaking this for N?