From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1E86F07B-EE45-41EA-A081-00E9844BDE4C@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="215116"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 16 20:37:05 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h5F7A-000trI-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5F79-0002cf-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5F6C-0002cW-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5EtQ-0007KX-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:22:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53100 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5EtQ-0007JY-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h5EtM-000eL5-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:22:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:33fHcVWDyhZ2yB7kG2r1onl8+Wg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234241 Archived-At: >> [ 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