From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:19:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> <42CF847F.6000206@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <85wto0baqg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42CFFB40.1060509@student.lu.se> <85fyun2acv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120973343 29452 80.91.229.2 (10 Jul 2005 05:29:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:29:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 07:29:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrUMz-0005s7-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:28:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrUOU-0004qU-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrULB-0003fD-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrUL5-0003bM-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrUL5-0003Z3-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DrUNn-0008Is-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DrUE1-0004nh-Vo; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:19:34 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85fyun2acv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:49:20 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40713 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40713 No. There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter. The 4 before the H is a character count. And H stands for "Hollerith code", the punch card predecessor of "ASCII code". Another advantage of 4H^.*\n is that you can join the 4H club. However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed backwards.