From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Docstring hack
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:32:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d3ulo9g.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=F=bAHodvXYP_vSY_wDUoOsskRvkLuP0b-B-MaicUg3F-SUg@mail.gmail.com> (Lynn Winebarger's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:50:19 -0400")
Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not that familiar with lisp implementations - isn't Emacs's
> treatment of a leading escaped literal newline already completely
> different? Is there a typical use of #" as a reader macro?
All other Lisps I know of use a regular string as a doc string, without
any special read syntax.
There is no special treatment of an escaped newline either -- AFAIK we
only apply that upon dumping, which is not a feature that is supposed to
be visible to user-level Lisp code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-30 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-30 12:14 Docstring hack Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 12:25 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 12:50 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 13:04 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 13:32 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-07-30 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 13:36 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 15:38 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 16:32 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 2:17 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 7:24 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 8:48 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 9:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-31 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-01 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04 4:12 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 12:53 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 20:29 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-08-01 1:05 ` Po Lu
2022-08-01 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 8:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-31 12:43 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-02 16:55 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 11:57 ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 0:52 ` Po Lu
2022-07-31 7:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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