From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:24:24 +0200 Message-ID: <85ackvhxvr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> <42CF847F.6000206@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <85wto0baqg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42CFFB40.1060509@student.lu.se> <85fyun2acv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120984093 14352 80.91.229.2 (10 Jul 2005 08:28:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 10:28:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrXAQ-0000Yh-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:28:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrXBu-00042I-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrXAF-00040N-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrXAC-0003zi-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrXAC-0003zY-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DrXFC-00072W-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DrX5O-0007Cm-NG; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C64D61C3C783; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:24:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Sean O'Rourke" In-Reply-To: (Sean O'Rourke's message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:59:55 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40719 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40719 "Sean O'Rourke" writes: > "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > >> No. There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter. The 4 >> before the H is a character count. And H stands for "Hollerith code", >> the punch card predecessor of "ASCII code". >> >> Another advantage of 4H^.*\n is that you can join the 4H club. >> >> However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed >> backwards. > > Yes, but there are 4HclubH4s for every taste. Imagine trying to > explain that design decision to someone in 10 years... I don't think that font-lock patterns can be made to deal with that currently, so this is definitely not stuff we should be considering for the next release. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum