From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: 23.0.60; \ is considered whitespace syntax in Lisp mode? Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:33:43 -0700 Message-ID: <004a01c8b573$4f9c29c0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210736114 12491 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2008 03:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 03:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 05:35:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jw7mO-0005T8-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 05:35:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jw7lf-0005oV-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jw7lb-0005oN-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jw7lY-0005oB-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41739 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jw7lY-0005o8-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:37589) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jw7lX-0004Os-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:38003) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jw7ka-0006R1-MN for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jw7lT-0004O9-AS for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:26792) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jw7lS-0004N1-Ui for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m4E3Yfv5020206 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 22:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m4CDQ7Qi000538 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 21:34:41 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3671614051210736019; Tue, 13 May 2008 20:33:39 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.233) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 13 May 2008 20:33:39 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: Aci1c08bPy8XhD/hSDuyCol4BLAsuA== X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97113 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22304 Archived-At: emacs -Q In *scratch*, type a backslash followed by a TAB and a letter: \ b Put the cursor on the letter. M-: (skip-syntax-backward "\\s-") The cursor is on the backslash. IOW, it skipped not only the whitespace but also the \, which should have escape syntax. This is the first time I've noticed this, so I'm guessing there is a good explanation and this behavior is somehow correct. But looking at the Elisp manual, I don't get that impression. Willing to learn... In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-05-04 on LENNART-69DE564 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'