From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:27:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210227.031857.1351840144740816188.conao3@gmail.com> <87r1kxi97x.fsf@db48x.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4840"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: =?windows-1252?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Aptel , Naoya Yamashita , Emacs development discussions To: Daniel Brooks Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 01:28:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lHFNh-000192-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:28:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36364 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHFNg-0003Bi-TF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHFMn-0002k9-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:3469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHFMk-0003kM-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 10EA0441DA7; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 19:27:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 6195B441DA6; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 19:27:43 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1614731263; bh=I90C6FXQE1jkryXj1jGTuDbz0iCtpfMh3WsndzJ0HnI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=elN++QLwZb7v4mo9X0ugW5WNq/czdQ3YUn2xQ4hQz/CXc+jeJUtDJIQgKFc/uPBOy MO23mDcs/9SARyGvwdBHw7pT2+vOGAdt/AGaLPPa+NCBVRvKZz6SRR+RplLlh39m71 Fz0Uq896tCmzw/MwArSv8p8BptPJnO0InPnU6Kkmrjes94swRmeYP5Lj7JrGS0c+pM oGMvzW2Og4kDXqgyyNIo4qn2QaFi505HoSqgswI7NVr0O2ba6SnCUk0D31QJNGFrof mDofs16twCSMtJQsv0n6qDNt/XfeZwjnNLpmKZBzBOLbS+2ej3izLStyZBaoKBjx0X XGTPv3D4JiuRw== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.41.47]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5BB87120208; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 19:27:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87r1kxi97x.fsf@db48x.net> (Daniel Brooks's message of "Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:36:34 -0800") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265850 Archived-At: > There are 101 lines using =E2=9F=A6\\\\\\\\=E2=9F=A7. > > =EE=82=B0=C2=A0rg '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' In the best case with raw string literals this would be brought down to: =EE=82=B0=C2=A0rg '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' > textmodes/reftex-vars.el > 564: \"\\\\\\\\begin{eqnarray}\\\\|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" works for = eqnarrays. And this would be: 564: "\\\\begin{eqnarray}\\|\\\\\\\\" works for eqnarrays. While it's clearly a bit better, it's clearly no silver bullet. > Look at that! 19 backslashes followed by a double=E2=80=93quote. That=E2= =80=99s just > stupid. The new version has fewer backslashes, but I'm not sure it'd be few enough to get below the threshold for "stupid". > I think the benefits would add up pretty quickly. I'm not convinced. Stefan