From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ?\_ patch Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:40:27 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200302052331.IAA28568@etlken.m17n.org> <200302060044.SAA21429@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302060131.KAA28694@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044528194 32304 80.91.224.249 (6 Feb 2003 10:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gjUu-0008Od-00 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:43:12 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gjdv-0005dh-00 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:52:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gjWd-0002Be-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 05:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gjUL-0000w9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 05:42:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gjU0-0000Nm-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 05:42:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gjSO-0007nZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 05:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D67144B5; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:40:35 +0100 (MET) Original-To: Kenichi Handa X-Yow: Yow! Now I get to think about all the BAD THINGS I did to a BOWLING BALL when I was in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL! In-Reply-To: <200302060131.KAA28694@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:31:32 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu Original-cc: ted@oconnor.cx X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11414 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11414 Kenichi Handa writes: |> In article <200302060044.SAA21429@eel.dms.auburn.edu>, Luc Teirlinck writes: |> > I now lean toward the original solution of using ?\s. |> |> I've just found that (eq 's '\s) => t. |> |> But, as (eq 'e '\e) is also t, this is not a problem, |> perhaps. Symbols and characters have quite different quoting rules. In symbols, the backslash is always ignored except to make it syntactically different from a number. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."