From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Escaping a string for substitute-command-keys
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:21:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h84p7nih.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c67232f5-1905-93bb-3eba-2d6bc72925e8@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit-Claudel on Thu, 3 Oct 2019 12:46:50 -0400)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 12:46:50 -0400
>
> > If I understand what you are looking for, the answer is in the manual:
> > quote any character with \= (in a Lisp string, that's "\\=", of
> > course). See the node "Keys in Documentation" in the ELisp manual.
>
> I saw that part in the manual, but I was looking for a function that would do that. Is there an easy way to tell what needs escaping, or should I just escape all `, ', and \? (and if so, should we add a function that does that to subr-x.el or somewhere similar?)
Is the problem only with quotes? Or also with other characters?
I don't think we have a general solution, but yes, escaping every
character that makes trouble would be one way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-03 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-03 13:52 Escaping a string for substitute-command-keys Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-03 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 16:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-03 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-03 18:28 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-03 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 13:56 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-04 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 4:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-05 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 4:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 8:04 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 8:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-05 15:40 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-05 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 19:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-06 2:57 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-06 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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