From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sean O'Rourke" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:22:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120886710 32287 80.91.229.2 (9 Jul 2005 05:25:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 05:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 07:25:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7pp-0000bx-Un for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 07:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7rH-000227-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7qo-0001yN-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7qi-0001tt-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7qi-0001tj-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.56] (helo=mailbox4.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dr7tu-0006EW-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.ucsd.edu (smtp-a.ucsd.edu [132.239.1.49]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j695M90C076766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 22:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Sean-ORourkes-Computer.local ([128.54.220.172]) by smtp.ucsd.edu (8.12.10/8.9.3) with ESMTP id j695M8Tg014648 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 22:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:01:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Trusted relay host); processed by UCSD_GL-v1.2 on mailbox4.ucsd.edu; Fri, 08 July 2005 22:22:10 -0700 (PDT) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 72999 j695M90C076766 mailbox4.ucsd.edu) 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:40678 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40678 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > I would not dream of changing something as fundamental as string > syntax for something as specific as filename handling, even if it were > meant to be used on the GNU system. Some sort of literal string syntax would also be very useful for regular expressions, since the Emacs syntax tends to be backslash-heavy. I'm sure it has been discussed before, but a quick Google search didn't turn up anything in the emacs-devel archives. /s