From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: tcr@freebits.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Difference between syntax class `escape' and `charquote'
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:35:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LYjxc-0005zc-82@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd4dl3i1i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:51:06 -0500)
> [A character quote character] differs from an escape character in
> that only the character immediately following is ever affected.
I can explain what that text means. It makes a distinction between
quoting _only_ the next character and introducing a longer sequence
such as `\150'.
I am not sure why I thought it was important to distinguish these two
cases. It was a long time ago. Maybe it was for the sake of some
further feature that was never implemented.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-15 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 21:07 Difference between syntax class `escape' and `charquote' Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-02-14 1:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-15 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman [this message]
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