Re: Printing \\= in the docstring

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 8:25 PM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:20:05 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Berman
> > stephen.berman@gmx.net wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:43:26 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 9:22 AM, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > How can I print \\= in the docstring ?
> > > > 
> > > > When I try \\= the = does not display. Neither does \\\\= or \\\=
> > > 
> > > To print the sequence "\\=" as a string but not as a doc string escape
> > > sequence, using "\\\\=" does work. But if you want to print it in the
> > > context of a doc string escape sequence, you have to double it, just
> > > like you have to double "\" in normal Lisp strings. For example, this
> > > in a doc string:
> > > 
> > > "\\\\=\\=\\=`\\\\\\\\(\\\\\\\\s-\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\=\\\\\\\\=\\\\\\\\=\\\\\\\\[\\\\\\\\-\\\\\\\\]\\\\\\\\s-\\\\\\\\)\\\\\\\\(.*\\\\\\\\) uses \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\=" appears like this in a "*Help*" buffer: \\\\\\\\=`\(\s-\\=\[\-\]\s-\)\(.*\) uses \\=
> > > 
> > > Steve Berman
> > 
> > If I use "\\\\=" the only thing that is displayed is "\" when using "C-h v myvar".
> 
> 
> It works in the example I gave just above. As so often you have not
> provided a complete reproducer, so I can only try to guess why what you
> did does not work. But I won't guess now.
> 
> Steve Berman

(defconst mydocstring ""

  "In the docstring, apply the escape sequence \\\\= to stop conversion by
  `substitute-command-keys'."