From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <17492.29148.246942.842300@parhasard.net> <17494.65299.531952.993037@parhasard.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146605826 25289 80.91.229.2 (2 May 2006 21:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 02 23:37:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb2YD-0004pz-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 23:36:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb2YD-0000Au-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb2Y2-0000Ai-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb2Y1-0000AO-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb2Y1-0000AL-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fb2YF-0002aU-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Fb2Y0-0000gq-DN; Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:44 -0400 Original-To: Aidan Kehoe In-reply-to: <17494.65299.531952.993037@parhasard.net> (message from Aidan Kehoe on Tue, 2 May 2006 08:41:23 +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:53816 Archived-At: > One other question occurs to me. In the Unicode branch, doesn't \x do > this job? If so, \u would be redundant once we merge in that code. It > would have no lasting purpose. I addressed that in my first mail, and I quote: Yes, but I don't think the argument is that strong, because I don't see a big hurry. On the other hand, given that C and Java use these constructs, compatibility in Emacs would be useful.