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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: janneke@gnu.org, epronk@muftor.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: define key with "\s-" super modifier in string?
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:16:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzjbck39.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EkRSH-0001bR-Sb@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:29:25 -0500")

> The presence of SPC in the error message is certainly a bug.

> The main purpose of \s for space is for character constants.
> So it seems to be a mistake to treat \s as space in string constants
> even when followed by dash.  It should get an error at read time.

This was discussed here a while back and the decision was made to also
consider \s in strings as a space.

> I made a change to do that.

You mean you've undone this change?  Please check the thread again, to see
why we ended up deciding that \s should be allowed in strings.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-08 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-07 19:27 define key with "\s-" super modifier in string? Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2005-12-07 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-08  4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-08 14:59   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-08 19:12   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2005-12-09  1:42     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-08 19:29   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-08 22:16     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-09  9:06       ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-09 15:02       ` Richard M. Stallman

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