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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265852 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> textmodes/reftex-vars.el >> 564: \"\\\\\\\\begin{eqnarray}\\\\|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" works for= eqnarrays. > > And this would be: > > 564: "\\\\begin{eqnarray}\\|\\\\\\\\" works for eqnarrays. > > While it's clearly a bit better, it's clearly no silver bullet. > >> Look at that! 19 backslashes followed by a double=E2=80=93quote. That=E2= =80=99s just >> stupid. > > The new version has fewer backslashes, but I'm not sure it'd be few > enough to get below the threshold for "stupid". > >> I think the benefits would add up pretty quickly. > > I'm not convinced. So what you're saying is that because there are multiple layers of escaping involved, we can't improve any one of those layers because it doesn't eliminate the problem? I say that halving the number of backslashes in cases like this is a good thing, and very much worth the minor incremental cost of a few dozen lines of extra code. db48x