Re: Printing \\= in the docstring

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:20:05 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Berman
> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:43:26 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 9:22 AM, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > > How can I print \\= in the docstring ?
>> >
>> > When I try \\= the = does not display. Neither does \\\\= or \\\=
>>
>>
>> To print the sequence "\\=" as a string but not as a doc string escape
>> sequence, using "\\\\=" does work. But if you want to print it in the
>> context of a doc string escape sequence, you have to double it, just
>> like you have to double "\" in normal Lisp strings. For example, this
>> in a doc string:
>>
>> "\\\\=\\=\\=`\\\\(\\\\s-\\\\\\\\=\\\\=\\\\=\\\\[\\\\-\\\\]\\\\s-\\\\)\\\\(.*\\\\)
>> uses \\\\\\\\=" appears like this in a "*Help*" buffer:
>> \\\\=`\(\s-\\=\[\-\]\s-\)\(.*\) uses \\=
>>
>> Steve Berman
>
> If I use "\\\\=" the only thing that is displayed is "\" when using "C-h v myvar".

It works in the example I gave just above.  As so often you have not
provided a complete reproducer, so I can only try to guess why what you
did does not work.  But I won't guess now.

Steve Berman