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From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:20:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im83q3z5.fsf@omarpolo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POKpYD5zccXu07yPQwazYHj10U37c2YLeWK+TVQp1FYsXw@mail.gmail.com>


Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:00 PM Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Why the \ has two forms in the ascii document as shown below:
>
> $ man ascii | grep -F '\\'
>        034   28    1C    FS  (file separator)        134   92    5C    \  '\\'
>
> As you can see, the document gives two forms of it:
>
>  \  '\\'

I guess, but it's only a guess, that's because \ is used for escaping
chars.  Even in the command you gave as an example you wrote '\\' (and
not '\') because otherwise the \ would have escaped the quote.  You can
see something similar in other columns, like for the tab '\t' or the
newline '\n'.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-09  6:05 The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09  6:32 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-09  7:16   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09  8:23     ` Omar Polo
2021-01-09  9:33       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 10:00         ` Omar Polo
2021-01-11  8:04           ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-11  8:20             ` Omar Polo [this message]
2021-01-11  9:51               ` tomas
2021-01-09 17:20         ` Francis Belliveau
2021-01-14 22:21           ` ASCII - Why...? -- as promised Francis Belliveau
2021-01-09 21:21     ` The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence Drew Adams
2021-01-09 17:39 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-01-09 18:47   ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-01-09 22:29     ` Kévin Le Gouguec

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