From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Misleading single "\" in Emacs Manual Section 25.3
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:58:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvcyncu3pu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: LnyzMtJXNAuoMu-_qwJsXUE2NJcevBPxgfsX8ohJlWkYLStGhxph7uHIe1GHFKSaVV08Jt5_B3K4XgF78mHSmklfVzJUEXUwHmW2YI_F3Pw=@protonmail.com
> Could you make a function where one can pass a string with the syntax
> one puts in a docstring, that returns the effect of docstring
> processing, where the first layer of \ is stripped.
Define precisely what you mean by "the effect of docstring processing"
and define precisely what you mean by "returns".
Stefan
PS: There's `read` (and `read-from-string`) and its inverse `prin1`.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-17 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-16 8:50 Misleading single "\" in Emacs Manual Section 25.3 Heime
2024-07-16 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-16 12:39 ` Heime
2024-07-16 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-16 13:53 ` Heime
2024-07-16 14:21 ` Heime
2024-07-16 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-16 15:21 ` Heime
2024-07-17 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
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