From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:32:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> <558DD6EA.4090306@yandex.ru> <558F497A.8050304@yandex.ru> <55926A9E.40901@yandex.ru> <5592A3D7.9060608@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435678385 10367 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2015 15:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 30 17:32:58 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9xWs-0002HT-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:32:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47532 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9xWr-0002jN-Mv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:32:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9xWk-0002jF-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9xWg-0001h3-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58166 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9xWf-0001fj-Vu; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:32:46 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083ADAC5F; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:32:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: I like your SNOOPY POSTER!! In-Reply-To: <5592A3D7.9060608@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:12:39 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187680 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > However, if we change \= to \ as the quoting method in > substitute-command-keys as well, that will be less of a problem. Backward > compatibility might be, but I've seen no evidence thus far, of \= being > used anywhere outside of Emacs core. But it will break doc strings that use \. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."