From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr@freebits.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Difference between syntax class `escape' and `charquote'
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:51:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4dl3i1i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873aeiqc4q.fsf@freebits.de> (Tobias C. Rittweiler's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:07:33 +0100")
> From isearching through src/syntax.c, it seems that the `escape' and
> `charquote' syntax class are interpreted synonymously.
Yes, they're synonymous, AFAIK.
> The documentation says
> [A character quote character] differs from an escape character in
> that only the character immediately following is ever affected.
> What is this supposed to mean? How can an escape character not affect
> the immediately following character?
I guess what it might have meant is that in \\" the " would still
be quoted? I don't think the C code does that, tho, and I can't think
of a language where that would be the right behavior.
IIRC the last time I looked at that code, the C code treats both forms
of escape in the exact same way.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-14 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 21:07 Difference between syntax class `escape' and `charquote' Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-02-14 1:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-02-15 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman
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