From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Backslash-escaped brackets in string literals
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k15fpidk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CCB4470C-C4E2-4E95-86AA-66556E826CD3@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:32:58 +0100)
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:32:58 +0100
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> However, I think the manual should be amended at this point, and that we needn't require new doc strings to escape brackets in the leftmost column. Would this patch be acceptable for emacs-27?
I thought I've just shown you that disregarding this issue entirely is
still premature. I'm okay with maybe making the text less mandatory
and more a recommendation, perhaps even mentioning older Emacs
versions. But removing it entirely? what's the rush?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-25 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-24 15:12 Backslash-escaped brackets in string literals Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-24 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-24 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-24 22:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-25 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 10:34 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-25 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 15:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-25 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-26 11:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-26 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 17:16 ` Drew Adams
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