From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "MarkS." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to really escape a double quote? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:05:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3634a4ce-623f-4187-ad7c-c23bc64587a0@a8g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: <87sjvdq8z2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298677430 27516 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 23:43:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:43:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 00:43:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt7K5-0002QT-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:43:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pt7K4-0002v3-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:43:45 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a8g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.66.136.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298592338 12234 127.0.0.1 (25 Feb 2011 00:05:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:05:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a8g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.66.136.230; posting-account=161FygoAAACx9nISkuOX_xZXUjtrzJMJ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185301 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:42:24 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79478 Archived-At: On Feb 24, 4:00=A0pm, David Kastrup wrote: > ^ loses its special meaning if it is not the first character of the > string. =A0So 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!