From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replacing endline
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:19:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4448090D.7050800@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pcoirp4m4lj.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no>
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> Uh. You would like to be able to type M-x query-replace RET \n RET #
> RET and have that \n behave like it was typed between quotes in a lisp
> expression? That, to me, is very unintuitive behaviour. The \n
> syntax is a special escape for the convenience of programmers. It
> should not be allowed to pollute interactive commands. The difficulty
> here comes from the very fact that entering a string in a program, and
> supplying one to an interactive command, are two very different
> things, and they need different escape conventions to enter special
> characters like the newline. Once you understand that, the difficulty
> should indeed evaporate. You might of course disagree with the choice
> of escape conventions, but I think it would confuse people more to use
> the backslash as an escape character in the interactive setting.
>
AFAICS the same escape syntax that are used for strings in elisp could
be used for strings read in the minibuffer. In princip I mean, not now
of course. To me it is not unnatural at all. But maybe it is very
inconvenient? Could you please explain what you mean from that point of
view?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 0:18 replacing endline sarah.dzion
2006-04-20 1:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-04-20 1:17 ` Ye Wenbin
2006-04-20 1:22 ` Fredrik Bulow
2006-04-20 1:44 ` Fredrik Bulow
2006-04-20 1:56 ` Fredrik Bulow
2006-04-20 6:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-04-20 14:43 ` Fredrik Bulow
2006-04-20 16:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-04-20 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-20 23:38 ` B. T. Raven
[not found] ` <mailman.650.1145549499.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-20 19:25 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2006-04-20 22:19 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-04-21 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.671.1145571606.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-21 6:52 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2006-04-21 0:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-04-20 10:21 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-04-20 18:54 ` kgold
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