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From: "MarkS." <throaway@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to really escape a double quote?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:05:37 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3634a4ce-623f-4187-ad7c-c23bc64587a0@a8g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sjvdq8z2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

On Feb 24, 4:00 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> ^ loses its special meaning if it is not the first character of the
> string.  So move your escaped double-quote one position to the right.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Thank you! I didn't realize there was a special meaning to the caret
in this context. Now just need to figure out how to get the global key
definition to work.

Thanks again!


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-25  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 23:54 How to really escape a double quote? MarkS.
2011-02-25  0:00 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-25  0:05   ` MarkS. [this message]
2011-02-26  2:05     ` Le Wang
     [not found]     ` <mailman.0.1298685964.28733.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-26  4:04       ` MarkS.
2011-02-26  5:10         ` Le Wang
2011-02-26  8:55   ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]   ` <mailman.18.1298710549.28733.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-26  9:00     ` David Kastrup

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