From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Non hex digit used for Unicode escape Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:01 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289523978 21639 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2010 01:06:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Fren Zeee Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 02:06:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGi5l-0003cF-0b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:06:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGi5k-00012k-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:06:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45748 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGi5f-0000zR-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:06:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGi5d-00071G-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth17.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.29]:55039) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGi5d-00070w-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:06:05 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 27410 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2010 00:53:26 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (74.125.82.169) by smtpauth17.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.29) with ESMTP; 12 Nov 2010 00:53:26 -0000 Original-Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so2912137wyf.0 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.128.7 with SMTP id i7mr1604663wbs.165.1289523961963; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.128.141 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132558 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Fren Zeee wrote: > The following post discusses the problem but gives no example of a good > solution on what is the replacement : > > Hi! > >> It's the line (setq default-directory "C:\Users\Charles") thats >> causing the problem. (cd "C:\Users\Charles") raised the same error >> too. > > You have to escape backslashes in strings like this: > > =A0 (cd "C:\\Users\\Charles") > > See (info "(emacs) Init Syntax") for some more hints. What about that post makes it not "a good solution"?