From: John A Pershing Jr <pershing@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: double backslash problem in elisp
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:01:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82vdkfsgu5.fsf@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5099.1250903947.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
> <grrr>Really Xah, for all your chest-puffing about your experience in
> the field of programming, you really surprise me sometimes with
> questions like this.</grrr>
Give the guy a break. *Especially* for someone with many years of
experience, presumably including bash, elisp, C, Java, grep, sed, etc.,
it's hard to keep straight how many times a backslash needs to be
escaped in which context to get the desired result. Hell, I've been
doing this stuff for nearly 40 years, and I still have to experiment at
times to get the backslashes correct.
-jp
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-22 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 9:43 double backslash problem in elisp Xah Lee
2009-08-21 10:11 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-22 1:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.5099.1250903947.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-22 2:42 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-22 21:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-08-22 21:01 ` John A Pershing Jr [this message]
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