From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:15:52 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55931518.30604@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> <558DD6EA.4090306@yandex.ru> <558F497A.8050304@yandex.ru> <55926A9E.40901@yandex.ru> <5592A3D7.9060608@yandex.ru> <5592BBA3.9080701@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435702574 18904 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2015 22:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 01 00:16:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZA3oz-0002xI-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:16:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3oy-0004VT-6s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3ou-0004Uz-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3op-0006dO-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:50124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3oo-0006c9-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0631608AA; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 81wyxHNH2bcG; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAC31608A9; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:15:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 8Tg57AlGDVi4; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41A8E16081B; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:15:52 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187693 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> \` and \' already have a special meaning in docstring sources >> >(unrelated to this issue) > I don't know which meaning you're referring to. After looking into this I decided that \` and \' are typically mistakes. I had thought that they may have sometimes have been inserted to avoid highlighting when viewing the sources. For example, a source docstring like "...\`foo\'..." acts like "...`foo'..." except that when one is viewing the source the "foo" is not highlighted (and of course one sees the otherwise-unnecessary backslashes). However, highlighting occurs anyway when the docstring is copied into a *Help* buffer, which means that in some sense it's misleading to try to suppress the source highlighting. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to the few instances of backslash-quotes in strings, some of which are obviously just typos, so I took the liberty of eliding them in master commit 3213d7707026573ca425ba1c865b7fa1a8b46639.