From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:42:07 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g022ggz4.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020411122929.A15350@nerafo.glue.umd.edu
arensb@Glue.umd.edu (Andrew Arensburger) writes:
> In particular, Elisp strings may contain \0, which is IMO
> unlikely to appear in any filename (and cannot appear in a Unix
> filename). Would it be possible to use "/\0" for quoting?
The `/:' is intended to be not just an internal way of quoting
filenames, but a user-convention as well -- e.g., as you already
noticed, it can be used to prevent emacs from expanding wildcards.
This means that it is mentioned in documentation, etc.
-Miles
--
80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-11 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 22:36 Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-11 16:29 ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 19:42 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-04-12 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 21:02 ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-15 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-11 19:16 ` Andrew Arensburger
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87g022ggz4.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp \
--to=miles@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.