From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: 23867@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23867: 25.1.50; Doc string containing `\N'
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:56:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <577D1C39.9080009@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1606291842210.1391@calancha-pc>
> Is it too difficult for \N followed by anything other than { to be
> treated (possibly with a warning?) as before (ie, not as an escape)?
It could be done, but I'd rather not. lread.c doesn't warn about other
stuff, by and large, and any warnings are likely to be ignored anyway.
It would be additional complexity for very little benefit.
As a general rule Elisp code should not use \X unless \X is documented
to be part of an escape sequence, or X is an ASCII punctuation character
that might otherwise confuse Emacs. (By the way, are the punctuation
characters still an issue? I've forgotten what their problem was or is.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-06 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 9:44 bug#23867: 25.1.50; Doc string containing `\N' Tino Calancha
2016-06-29 9:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-06-29 10:01 ` Tino Calancha
2016-06-29 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-29 14:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-06-29 14:44 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-04 16:43 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-06 14:56 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-07-06 15:35 ` Glenn Morris
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