From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:22:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh8c2631n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1E86F07B-EE45-41EA-A081-00E9844BDE4C@acm.org
>> [ Yes, I know it's unrelated, but it's another common (minor) error. ]
> Ah yes, sorry, should have done that while at it. Now I searched for such
> cases and found lots, and decided to postpone it since it's mostly
> cosmetic --
It's both cosmetic and tricky (you have to understand enough of the
code to be sure that it's not meant to work on multiline text).
> unless we are concerned about newlines in file names, which we
> perhaps should be.
I don't think there's much reason to worry about newline in files, but
it's nice not to need to decide whether we should worry about something
or not.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-16 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 18:09 Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-16 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-16 19:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-16 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-03-19 1:56 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-16 18:40 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-16 19:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
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