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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: double backslash problem in elisp
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:43:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cb7861e-3cf9-4613-b0a6-194ae80d0b6e@i8g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)


this is really a strang error.

eval this:
(replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" "//169.254.153.147/xah/Documents/
alice artwork scans/")


i get this error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid use of `\\' in
replacement text")
  replace-match("\\" nil nil "/" nil)
  replace-regexp-in-string("/" "\\" "//169.254.153.147/xah/Documents/
alice artwork scans/")
  eval((replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" "//169.254.153.147/xah/
Documents/alice artwork scans/"))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)


any idea why?

double backslash should mean single backslash as far as i knows...

basically am trying to prepare a path to feed to w32-shell-execute.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄


             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21  9:43 Xah Lee [this message]
2009-08-21 10:11 ` double backslash problem in elisp Teemu Likonen
2009-08-22  1:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.5099.1250903947.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-22  2:42   ` Xah Lee
2009-08-22 21:39     ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-08-22 21:01   ` John A Pershing Jr

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