From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:32:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k36w8ykg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMbiG3_eorJe+71ZGaM33w+BqS12izYex4NdD_bMtORqb+x+Vg@mail.gmail.com
Matthew Plant <maplant2@illinois.edu> writes:
> I think that raw string literals would be a really nice thing to add to Emacs
> lisp. The most immediate benefit is that writing regexps would be much easier.
> And since most of the work that goes into major modes is writing regexp, writing
> major modes would become a lot faster.
Would love to have this!
Here is one of my recent use case: "quote bashslash in a shell command".
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/98550
The shell command is:
echo foo.bar | sed -e 's/\..*//'
which will produce "foo" on bash.
If i try to pass it to shell-command-to-string:
(shell-command-to-string "echo foo.bar | sed -e 's/\..*//'")
=> "\n"
Then i find i need to quote the backslash in emacs once more:
(shell-command-to-string "echo foo.bar | sed -e 's/\\..*//'")
=> "foo\n"
Is there a function or other way that can handle this kind of backslash
quoting automatically?
--
William
http://xwl.appspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-25 19:47 Raw string literals in Emacs lisp Matthew Plant
2014-07-25 19:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-07-25 20:06 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-25 20:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-07-25 20:24 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-25 20:33 ` Tom Tromey
2014-07-25 21:40 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-26 1:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-26 5:28 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-26 5:45 ` chad
2014-07-26 19:39 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-27 12:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-27 13:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-07-27 20:58 ` David Caldwell
2014-07-27 23:17 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-28 18:27 ` Richard Stallman
2014-07-28 19:32 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-29 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-07-30 0:26 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-30 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2014-07-30 18:54 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-28 2:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-28 7:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-30 20:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-07-30 20:41 ` David Caldwell
2014-07-30 20:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-07-30 21:01 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-30 21:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-07-30 21:19 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-31 10:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-08-02 8:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-08-02 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-02 10:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-08-02 15:51 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-03 6:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-03 7:29 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 13:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-03 13:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 15:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-04 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-04 6:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-05 1:41 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-05 6:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 13:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 15:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-04 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-02 9:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-28 1:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-26 21:37 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-29 6:32 ` William Xu [this message]
2014-07-29 7:40 ` Andreas Schwab
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