From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:24:35 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200302050424.WAA19881@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <20030204155741.B75B.LEKTU@terra.es> <2110-Tue04Feb2003214642+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20030204211350.DE42.LEKTU@terra.es> <200302042022.h14KMPN23253@rum.cs.yale.edu> <15936.9792.971817.964555@nick.uklinux.net> <5xk7gftvmi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044419038 4599 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 04:23:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gH6J-0001Bt-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:23:55 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gHEi-0004uO-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:32:36 +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 18gH70-000126-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gH6R-0000Vx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gH6L-0000MP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gH6J-0000Ey-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28411; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:23:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id WAA19881; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:24:35 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: <5xk7gftvmi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Original-cc: ted@oconnor.cx 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:11375 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11375 Kim Storm wrote: AFAIK, there is no difference between "?\ " and "? ". No, but the Elisp manual says: Also add a backslash before whitespace characters such as space, tab, newline and formfeed. However, it is cleaner to use one of the easily readable escape sequences, such as `\t', instead of an actual whitespace character such as a tab. The last sentence might provide some further argument for ?\_, which I still believe to be clearer than ?\s, because the latter could provide human confusion with ?\s-, even though there might be no syntactic conflict. Sincerely, Luc.