From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: removing spaces from a string
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:30:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r73te538.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s2z2bt4u8rxp.1p3onhv9qcoyy$.dlg@40tude.net
Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:
> How to interpret ?\ ? Where can I learn about this?
I assume in the elisp info documentation.
(info "(elisp)Character Type")
Note that ?\x interprets x specially,
while ?x interprets x literally.
It just happens that ?\ (? \ SPC) falls in the default case of ?\,
where its interpreted as space. But ?\a is not ?a.
--
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not
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2006-04-19 10:43 ` removing spaces from a string Peter Tury
2006-04-19 11:42 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 12:49 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-04-19 13:11 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 15:06 ` Peter Tury
2006-04-19 15:39 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-04-19 16:02 ` Peter Tury
2006-04-19 19:30 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2006-04-19 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-19 10:01 LENNART BORGMAN
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2006-04-19 9:02 Peter Tury
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