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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: cc@cli.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Local variables" and continuation lines
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:47:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafd6zbvuwj.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sn87hesk.fsf@ID-24456.user.dfncis.de> (Christoph Conrad's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:47:07 +0100")

Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

> ,----
> | long-string: "This is going to be a really, really, really, really,\
> | really, really, really, really, really long string"
> `----
>
> Could be a syntax error!? Ahhh, at the END of the first line there's
> an escape.

To me, this looks quite plausible.  Lots of languages have a syntax
where "\" at the end of a line is used as a continuation character.

kai
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2002-02-11 21:47   ` "Local variables" and continuation lines Christoph Conrad
2002-02-12 10:47     ` Kai Großjohann [this message]

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