From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: buffer-string considered as a Bad Thing.
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 22:22:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qzk8nkz.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zl9lcuxkwBDw3GvZ@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:05:22 +0000")
On Jun 04 2024, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> As an example, in pp, the function pp-to-string does this. To see the
> effect, try
>
> M-: (pp "foo \"bar\" baz")
>
> .. This gets printed correctly to the temporary buffer *temp* as:
>
> "foo \"bar\" baz" ;; (a 13 character string)
>
> , but buffer-string wrongly converts those literal characters to
>
> "foo \\\"bar\\\" baz" ;; (a 15 character string)
That's not what I get.
ELISP> (pp-to-string "foo \"bar\" baz")
"\"foo \\\"bar\\\" baz\""
This string correctly represents the contents of the buffer.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-04 19:05 buffer-string considered as a Bad Thing Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-04 20:22 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2024-06-04 20:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-04 21:24 ` Andreas Schwab
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