From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:55:47 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075194238 13273 80.91.224.253 (27 Jan 2004 09:03:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development , Neil Jerram Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 10:03:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlP8S-000755-01 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:03:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlP7Y-0000TN-1j for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlP7N-0000SW-Sy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:02:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlP5J-0000AD-QM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.62] (helo=lewis.CNS.CWRU.Edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlP0e-0007Cw-6H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.smtp-b.cwru.edu by smtp-b.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) id <0HS500B014KCNP@smtp-b.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:55:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by smtp-b.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HS5007PT4SZMI@smtp-b.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:55:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 20497 invoked by uid 500); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:56:09 +0000 In-reply-to: Original-To: Stephen Compall Mail-followup-to: Stephen Compall , Neil Jerram , Guile Development Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 21 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3318 Stephen Compall wrote: > BTW, the old \ behavior *is* documented in the manual, see Info node > `(guile)Backslash Escapes'. > > Unrecognized escape sequences are ignored: if the characters `\*' > appear in a string, they will be translated to the single > character `*'. Since that appears in the section on regular expression syntax, not string syntax, it seems more like description than specification. I think it'd be best to change that to match the new code. > To speed up the operation, we changed Emacs to assume that any > opening delimiter at the left margin is the start of a defun. So it sounds like this would work, then: "foo...\ \n(bar...)" paul _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel