From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I continue to get error ob-ref: unescaped character literals Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:28:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87a6v8jx3w.fsf@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22035"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 09:28:48 2020 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 1kh7DL-0005bL-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:28:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58866 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kh7DK-0002D0-Jg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kh7D0-0002Cf-Py for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:48031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kh7Cz-0005FN-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:28:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1606120102; bh=os+hA8ErSezV4FLsrp8jOUYW9B1eEc+TzfYoSKmf/ow=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=aKuxd8zne1KFnLqr1UZ03WCbv2Kxl2603pXy/RjvXXQj2S+zLKYG7tZp0K4gNax4l dw+cR53rEexSU2pK2wek9dypdye6aaSJwB6pSAUy7B4uyLGIjGdr4E1CKj1YDr+pxS 6AH0iDyoR40ZLFptPcFCc161jJzPdxWzh6qvNLhU= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Original-Received: from strobe-jhalfs ([178.9.100.6]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx105 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MbRfl-1k5abH1i7l-00bpKD; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:28:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Christopher Dimech's message of "Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:37:07 +0100") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:vf2ZhQu1xIy6ME4cG2cM6L15A8ZenUcn7nu62e40kfaBM80EZjZ ohykPtmlxt63JFysOSyCnAps2A+g6g1y2QnYVjItvc8Q0x1a/5F0LsQpH+5QqnrcZVIJ+NZ KEJ7rWYtoeY3fnqoAyxolrS8LaEslingIjXhCE55ZY8apPNOifdpymJoSo3VrqGXPJ9oRwV zIOn4ql834GQ55ybUGhHA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:ELs05nT1ZGU=:kzaBOTqqeJJzXcrQJ4/3n8 aL0wzbwaDVaxC2XAQvjBX9TXnw739qAHb+BetJY+SzMrlO9v/tQGoSov895xqz8NmyFIMLyO6 jpEcbxMNSzlYyOGBV9E1rVyxtI0YGtNa04hGu8KxlWONUq+pNQD/0zctKkjm5g+3/ysTT+Xiy nLzYhKGNWpGKNF3GlfohMCwp6m+IsQv8iUAcgk7shDWiEKIqm1QDy/AVohRyApg3r1+H/ZNaY jSPSdYDdeHlug0NeINWNniyWrtkUPar10RwMaqDtxS1JlCuDzuLk0h/AvRoX7gEh7T5RlhT+9 g/ElXeaCQFsvYFsyd9MRTmpHWbEacRBHCdu/BA/3ZbYY47T6XuPS3wDOYdLhT0pMrEtIbzQhD xPG58/8Z3xhbkkX0qSEupcR6l49ntk9ZV0B5XBv3kOolUr9sR+aNyST6swLnGHvfWeF1vYqve 4C7qOJYteCI6cqMzHmoAIT0s9ObXmP8Ls7/4d7RuvgwSBXh4PL2Vz4mdudB4Z+slyJNLRpgV8 9Ve8RXeyGXkKp6tOKJpDAIIZweRWnMqZvwvuD64PkppJAnwyL+GH3GX78O9IzN+d6IRbdZdur jqcOBv3NMqDAkBHW9bXpvAulWBSdGG1r2umEzrURP8XFeEW/0J+aid5R766ja/SYI4hUD8RF/ 6QWSTONtD2zcGPwP2IOjiah0/x3xb4KBr/jI+lZJclOU9f1y/spb7HxhceIfR1fAO6yr3s9Y0 +tmo2Nr7qnA5CzgnCzNsAMMTnuQsiw/qYJuZeOuDr26ARRcGLXmHpuvcBFrWPhjc93maLthq Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.227.17.22; envelope-from=stephen.berman@gmx.net; helo=mout.gmx.net X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125503 Archived-At: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:37:07 +0100 Christopher Dimech wrot= e: > I am continually getting the following error. What is it? > > Loading =E2=80=98ob-ref=E2=80=99: unescaped character literals `?(', `?)'= detected, `?\(', > `?\)' expected! It's a warning from the byte compiler that it found `?(' and `?)' in elisp code, which should be written as `?\(' and `?\)'. See (info "(elisp) Basic Char Syntax"): The usual read syntax for alphanumeric characters is a question mark followed by the character; thus, =E2=80=98?A=E2=80=99 for the character = =E2=80=98A=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98?B=E2=80=99 for the character =E2=80=98B=E2=80=99, and =E2=80=98?a=E2=80=99 for the chara= cter =E2=80=98a=E2=80=99. [...] You can use the same syntax for punctuation characters. However, if the punctuation character has a special syntactic meaning in Lisp, you must quote it with a =E2=80=98\=E2=80=99. For example, =E2=80=98?\(=E2= =80=99 is the way to write the open-paren character. [...] Steve Berman