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From: Oleh Krehel <o.krehel@tue.nl>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prin1-to-string noescape parameter
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:11:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1SQWDeLkoK6K-xkroQHBJoqsR0r+q1zyipbKo9SeDzuvujKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4rwnjev.fsf@igel.home>

Hi Andreas,

>> One issue that I'm facing is:
>>
>>     (prin1-to-string (read "(foo.bar baz?)"))
>>     => "(foo\\.bar baz\\?)"
>
> Why is that an issue?  The strings represent objects that will compare
> equal.

The issue is that if I have `foo.bar` in the code, and then I re-format
my code by:

- read text
- delete text
- manipulate lisp object
- insert manipulated lisp object

And now my code contains `foo\.bar`, although I don't want it.

regards,
Oleh



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-31 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-31 16:15 prin1-to-string noescape parameter Oleh Krehel
2014-10-31 19:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-31 20:11   ` Oleh Krehel [this message]
2014-10-31 20:51     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-31 21:24       ` Oleh Krehel
2014-11-01  7:34         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-01  8:28           ` Oleh Krehel
2014-11-01 10:03             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-31 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier

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