Re: How to actually print single ‘\’ character?

[Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> (insert "this \\ is a single embedded backslash")
> -> this \ is a single embedded backslashnil
>
> Perhaps you're confused by how Emacs prin1s readable strings?
>
> "foo \\ bar"
> => "foo \\ bar"

I was reading about “Regexp Search” and then went on to see “(elisp)
String Type”.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I have tried:
>> 
>> ‘"this \\ is a single embedded backslash"’
>> 
>> inside ‘format’ and ‘message’ functions. It prints two backslashes.
>
> It does?  What exactly did you try, and wbere did you see 2 backslashes?

As I was reading, I was trying in the “*scratch*” buffer and evaluating
using “C-x e”. Tried to pring in “*Message*” buffer using “(message)”
function as well.