From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: ttn@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: literal newlines in @result{} strings
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:27:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874q96yvcw.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EATgz-0000Jy-Dk@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:35:57 -0400")
> I am not sure what distinction you're making. `\n' is alternative
> Lisp syntax for a literal newline. Which one we use in writing a Lisp
> string is arbitrary, except when we're talking about print functions
> which use one or the other.
I meant that these functions return only a literal newline, not `\n'.
It might be confusing for readers of the reference manual when they
will try out an example and see that its real output is different from
the documented output in regard to newlines. They might start to
search for an (AFAIK, nonexistent) option that toggles a literal newline
or `\n' in return values, or even to fill a bug report.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-31 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 23:33 literal newlines in @result{} strings Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-30 10:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-30 15:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-31 14:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-31 16:27 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-09-01 7:11 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-09-01 15:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-01 19:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-09-03 1:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
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