From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Backslash-escaped brackets in string literals
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 23:22:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64ECD2AB-962B-4781-BFBA-6357277C9599@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvblqs4v84.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Eli and Stefan, thanks for explaining.
24 jan. 2020 kl. 18.36 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> Yes and no. We have started to remove dependence on this, but there's
> still some ways to go. Eli mentioned `C-x 4 a` but there are others.
Actually, I tried to provoke C-x 4 a into a fit but failed. Perhaps I just didn't have enough patience.
> Those that occur within "normal strings" would benefit from
> being fixed (i.e. removing the backslash). Those that apply to
> something else than an open paren probably should be fixed as well.
What I've done now is to remove (or, in some cases, double) redundant backslashes except \( in doc strings. We probably could do away with more of them, but I tweaked the tool to ignore the rest so it's good enough for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-24 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-24 15:12 Backslash-escaped brackets in string literals Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-24 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-24 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-24 22:22 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2020-01-25 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 10:34 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-25 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 15:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-25 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-26 11:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-26 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 17:16 ` Drew Adams
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