From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Questions about parser state Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 07:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f8dd0eb-00b0-4293-9b23-46ef6e0d2a8a@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380982658 2641 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2013 14:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 14:17:38 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 05 16:17:40 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSSfs-0000MA-7c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:17:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSSfr-0006CL-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSSfY-0006B3-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSSfP-0000gf-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:22845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSSfO-0000gN-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r95EH8SQ023386 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 5 Oct 2013 14:17:09 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r95EH7ll013982 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 5 Oct 2013 14:17:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt106.oracle.com (abhmt106.oracle.com [141.146.116.58]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r95EH7hr029204; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 14:17:07 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93857 Archived-At: > > 1. What does the "quote character" mean? Does it mean "'" in Lisp? If > > so, what about "," and "#"? >=20 > No, it's typically the \ char. Though char escaping is a type of quoting, would it be clearer to refer to \ as the escape character? That's common language, and it is what we do when talking about regexps (e.g., (elisp) `Syntax Descriptors': "Thus, `\' as a designator character always means "escape character" syntax...."