From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:01:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120862173 21457 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2005 22:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 22:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 00:36:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr1Rr-0000j1-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr1TI-0000e4-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr1St-0000VK-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr1N2-0006jU-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr1N0-0006Ol-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dr13s-0003j8-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dr0uY-0002Qh-Fa; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:01:30 -0400 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:16:59 +0200) 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:40663 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40663 Is it possible to tell Emacs not to interpret escape character in a certain string? If I have something like this: (setq str "some\thing\escaped") Can this be changed without changing the literal so that Emacs takes exactly what is in the string, without escaping any characters? I would not dream of changing something as fundamental as string syntax for something as specific as filename handling, even if it were meant to be used on the GNU system. And since it is merely for the sake of Windows, an unethical system that we aim to replace, the motive is even further from sufficient. Nothing important in the design of Emacs should be designed for the sake of Windows, because that would be giving Windows influence it should not have.