From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: A Soare Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character syntax of linefeed? Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <874ookw69w.fsf@freebits.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259146071 31003 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 10:47:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:47:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 11:47:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDFPC-00033c-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:47:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDFPB-0002Jr-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDFP2-0002II-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDFOx-0002CN-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39461 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDFOx-0002CB-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50672) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDFOw-0004Vc-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NDFOb-0002Vr-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from nat-240.ro.66.com ([91.201.80.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from alinsoar by nat-240.ro.66.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 91.201.80.240 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:117740 Archived-At: > I get (" > " ">"), i.e. a syntax of type 'endcomment'. > > This behaviour seems to go through 23,22, and 21, so it's definitively > not new. > > My question is, is the above paragraph just wrong? Can I count on it > being ">"? Emacs was conceived first of all to be convenient for lisp, and in lisp newline means also end of comment. Alin