From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:20:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im83q3z5.fsf@omarpolo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POKpYD5zccXu07yPQwazYHj10U37c2YLeWK+TVQp1FYsXw@mail.gmail.com>
Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:00 PM Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Why the \ has two forms in the ascii document as shown below:
>
> $ man ascii | grep -F '\\'
> 034 28 1C FS (file separator) 134 92 5C \ '\\'
>
> As you can see, the document gives two forms of it:
>
> \ '\\'
I guess, but it's only a guess, that's because \ is used for escaping
chars. Even in the command you gave as an example you wrote '\\' (and
not '\') because otherwise the \ would have escaped the quote. You can
see something similar in other columns, like for the tab '\t' or the
newline '\n'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-11 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-09 6:05 The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 6:32 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-09 7:16 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 8:23 ` Omar Polo
2021-01-09 9:33 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 10:00 ` Omar Polo
2021-01-11 8:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-11 8:20 ` Omar Polo [this message]
2021-01-11 9:51 ` tomas
2021-01-09 17:20 ` Francis Belliveau
2021-01-14 22:21 ` ASCII - Why...? -- as promised Francis Belliveau
2021-01-09 21:21 ` The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence Drew Adams
2021-01-09 17:39 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-01-09 18:47 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-01-09 22:29 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
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