From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Misleading single "\" in Emacs Manual Section 25.3 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:36:22 +0300 Message-ID: <861q3tihm1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <865xt5iq6k.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25061"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 16 15:37:03 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sTiMX-0006EQ-DJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:37:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sTiM5-0007fy-2z; Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sTiLz-0007NE-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sTiLx-0005bT-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:36:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=YIHg6QMvfXog/9usSK+NeNBG3hL+2kAQsCNifKKRk34=; b=X2FUPlNWQkuz hlGcN+0N+15hyLr4xYExTla/q5eMuqh+jFbj90w9MeoGXbPPWcQFjzgyULb10lgUNHpXe/acb44Oy aj7/p8vVNfbiZAdYOmJrI9CTBswk3S9MT6Crn+ELpCb4UE4v73mm0gxUHmXh8F/ldnUl6II9cA4nZ ScIhlR/l4EPTKw2YTAhONN8ilrNit6lOYRF5jIVt3rzIt/8lSmmXu47dk/+s+zpn2NQxjn6iMwpHS quK8PqPVkpoyec0vEjoT/OVje6fFGEee8fx6NxE6eUDPFhTH346XKFvpVrEslEOV9TGon5mwiZwfD nflNXrZyHcgvdDc2DiHCrA==; In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:39:08 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147253 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:39:08 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > The commands in the section with a single "\" is misleading. > > > > > > I don't think they are misleading, since the text says right away that > > each backslash in the forms above needs to be doubled. > > It is already confusing enough on how many \ are needed for some expressions to be > printed (e.g. for regex expressions). > > When the topic is about documentation strings, the commands should conform to what > one would type in the documentation string. I disagree. > Some readers will initially think that they should write \= in their > string directly. Only if they fail to pay attention to the note about doubling the backslashes.