From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: literal newlines in @result{} strings Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:27:19 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874q96yvcw.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87k6i38mqg.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125506465 30536 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2005 16:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 18:40:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVal-0003ah-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:37:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVex-0005mK-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVef-0005fY-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVeZ-0005bx-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVeZ-0005bn-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EAVcj-0007gl-FN; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-40-77-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.40.77]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9E0203E; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:36:47 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:35:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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:42532 Archived-At: > 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/