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From: Ruijie Yu via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Chen Zhaoyang <chenzhauyang@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Escape syntax in docstrings
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:04:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdvpm8yu6wv.fsf@fw.net.yu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edpfnqln.fsf@gmail.com>

Hello,

Chen Zhaoyang <chenzhauyang@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear friends,
>
> Since when did emacs become stricter when enforcing the escape syntax in
> docstrings? On 27.1 (built by debian), this function evals to no error:
>
> (defun slash-in-docstring ()
>  "\x -> x"
>  nil)
>
> [...]
>
> Can we document this change of behavior?

This issue has been reported in bug#62224 as well.  Apparently after the
OP reported the bug, Eli made changes to the documentation accordingly
-- although I myself don't know where exactly to look.

--
Best,


RY



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-24  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-23 20:46 Escape syntax in docstrings Chen Zhaoyang
2023-03-23 22:02 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-24 16:17   ` James Cloos
2023-03-24 21:17   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-28 12:14   ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-28 12:27     ` Andreas Schwab
2023-03-28 15:23       ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-24  4:04 ` Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2023-03-24  4:44   ` Chen Zhaoyang
2023-03-24 18:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-24 19:58       ` Chen Zhaoyang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-23 22:32 Chen Zhaoyang
2023-03-24 13:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-24 15:58 ` David Ongaro
2023-03-24 17:22   ` Chen Zhaoyang

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