From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Local variables" and continuation lines Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:47:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200202110209.g1B295Y06552@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1013511558 31963 195.204.10.66 (12 Feb 2002 10:59:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Feb 2002 10:59:18 GMT Cc: cc@cli.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16aaeb-0008JR-00 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:59:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16aaTw-0006Uy-00; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 05:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16aaTX-0006Ty-00; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 05:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g1CAljb13969; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:47:46 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA00042; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:47:40 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 787933AF6D; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:47:40 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Christoph Conrad In-Reply-To: (Christoph Conrad's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:47:07 +0100") Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1026 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1026 Christoph Conrad 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 -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis) _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel