From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_How_to_actually_pri?= =?UTF-8?Q?nt_single_=E2=80=98=5C=E2=80=99_character=3F?= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:35:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87tusdrtbp.fsf@codeisgreat.org> <8735zxlzal.fsf@gnus.org> <87ft3w25ze.fsf@codeisgreat.org> <87mty4ybwa.fsf@codeisgreat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32261"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Pankaj Jangid Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 13:36:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ks3N8-0008FH-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:36:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38838 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ks3N7-0007PI-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ks3MJ-0006o7-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ks3MI-00076W-Sj; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [2a02:14f:0:9dbc::1] (port=49458) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ks3MH-0004bT-VN; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:35:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mty4ybwa.fsf@codeisgreat.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261590 Archived-At: On December 23, 2020 1:55:49 PM GMT+02:00, Pankaj Jangid wrote: >=20 > Now I have confusion with single backslash=2E See following two forms, > their output and return values: >=20 > (message "this \\ is a single embedded backslash") =E2=8A=A3 "this \ is = a > single > embedded backslash" =E2=87=92 "this \\ is a single embedded backslash" >=20 > (message "this \ is a single embedded backslash") =E2=8A=A3 "this is a s= ingle > embedded backslash" =E2=87=92 "this is a single embedded backslash" >=20 > Why the output and return same for string with single backslash? Because the return value should be suitable for the Lisp reader=2E