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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
	23867@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23867: 25.1.50; Doc string containing `\N'
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:44:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-8y3DjWdLG55U0xXJ8qz3T4m-r3ayPXpqJY1wXEbQqAmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf7c85ae-1b7a-4938-b42c-4171be0bc6a4@default>

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> There have been very few exceptions to this in the past - very
> few characters for which \-escaping is not a no-op.  What's the
> rationale for breaking this for N?

It's in NEWS:

** Emacs now supports character name escape sequences in character and
string literals.  The syntax variants \N{character name} and
\N{U+code} are supported.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-29 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-29  9:44 bug#23867: 25.1.50; Doc string containing `\N' Tino Calancha
2016-06-29  9:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-06-29 10:01   ` Tino Calancha
2016-06-29 14:00     ` Drew Adams
2016-06-29 14:15       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-06-29 14:44       ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2016-07-04 16:43 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-06 14:56 ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-06 15:35   ` Glenn Morris

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