From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:19:12 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030205001822.464E.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <15936.9792.971817.964555@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044401209 8781 80.91.224.249 (4 Feb 2003 23:26:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gCSl-0002HU-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:26:47 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gCb4-0002B5-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gCTs-0001fQ-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gCTG-0001Nc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:27:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gCSi-0000d0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129] helo=tsmtp7.mail.isp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gCLV-0003Th-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.36.30.211] ([80.36.30.211]) by tsmtp7.mail.isp (terra.es) with ESMTP id H9T4RZ00.BTZ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:19:11 +0100 Original-To: "Edward O'Connor" , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11365 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11365 On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:59:57 -0500 "Edward O'Connor" wrote: > so why don't we adopt a good and > arguably more readable substitute for ?\ , say, ?\s? > > Ted, who thinks (setq foo ?\ ) looks strange I like it. I find ?\ weird too, and ugly. -- Juanma Barranquero