From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6390: Should not regexp-quote quote newline? 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Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONKYg-0004Lz-9b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONKYe-0002Ps-6Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:51:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:52:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:37714 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: ... > The only interpretation I can make is that the madness is already here > since linefeed and form-feed already may be written as \n and \f if > you set print-escape-newlines to t. All I proposed was that it should > write tab as \t too. Perhaps there should be a separate variable to print escape sequences for all the ASCII control characters (see the Basic Char Syntax node of the Emacs Lisp manual): \a, \b, \t, \n, \v, \f, \r, \e, \d It would probably be controversial to include \s and \\ , since they aren't control characters. > I might not have proposed that if I knew it was that utterly > disturbing to someone. ;-) Perhaps MON KEY objects to backwards-incompatibility. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA