From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacing endline Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:52:49 +0200 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1145492327.354125.133060@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87lku1t3fn.fsf@gmail.com> <7efyk8pxjz.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <87acagux25.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145605236 7148 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 07:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 09:40:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWqFe-0003Na-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWqFd-0006z7-Pw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:40:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1145601928 13987 129.241.15.140 (21 Apr 2006 06:45:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:45:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MYSK4k9uFFRfibCkT4xRdb6PUYs= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138916 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34536 Archived-At: + Lennart Borgman : | 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. Sure, in principle you could choose any escape convention you please. | 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? Well, if backslash was an escape character in string reads in the minibuffer, any latex user who wants to replace \foo by \bar would have to type those strings as \\foo and \\bar. That would confuse newbies, and be inconvenient to more experienced folk. It gets worse if you need to use query-replace-regexp, which also uses backslashes for an escape convention, so you might end up having to type a quadruple backslash in place of a single one. Ouch! Besides, the C-q escape convention is not only for the minibuffer. It's for every kind of buffer! Once you realise that there is nothing that special about the minibuffer - it's just an ordinary buffer with a peculiar mode - you will see that this is very logical indeed. (I think I am going to bow out of this discussion now. I have said all I have to say on the topic, and can't think of a way to state it more clearly.) -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell