From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Non hex digit used for Unicode escape
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinDTj+q3PRVw0kAuNERTgwTr5FmK7m+g3OMzE0u@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikMDwOUMC8W0BUSo1PeqSx1qZ1TRmtVZj_AgR+2@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following post discusses the problem but gives no example of a good
> solution on what is the replacement :
>
> Hi!
>
>> It's the line (setq default-directory "C:\Users\Charles") thats
>> causing the problem. (cd "C:\Users\Charles") raised the same error
>> too.
>
> You have to escape backslashes in strings like this:
>
> (cd "C:\\Users\\Charles")
>
> See (info "(emacs) Init Syntax") for some more hints.
What about that post makes it not "a good solution"?
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2010-11-11 22:00 Non hex digit used for Unicode escape Fren Zeee
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