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: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:45:47 -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 1075171838 29630 80.91.224.253 (27 Jan 2004 02:50:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 03:50:33 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 1AlJJA-0007EY-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:50:33 +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 1AlJFj-0006L1-Rk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlJFZ-0006Ka-EL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlJF3-0006Hb-La for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.62] (helo=lewis.CNS.CWRU.Edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlJF3-0006Ez-5Y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:46:17 -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 <0HS400A01NM2EJ@smtp-b.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:45:48 -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 <0HS400777NOC9J@smtp-b.cwru.edu> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:45:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 18897 invoked by uid 500); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:46:10 +0000 In-reply-to: Original-To: Neil Jerram Mail-followup-to: Neil Jerram , Guile Development Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 19 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:3315 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3315 Neil Jerram wrote: > The recent change to signal an error for "unrecognized" \ sequences > has negatively affected the Elisp translator, because Elisp code often > uses "\(" in doc strings. (I think this is when the "(" would > otherwise be in column 0, to avoid Emacs thinking that it is the start > of a new defun.) Would it work to change the Emacs docstrings to look like this? "foo...\ \n(bar...)" > Is it reasonable to again allow "\(" as a special case That would avoid the need to edit the Emacs sources, though it's a bit ugly. I guess the Right Way would be to fix Emacs so it doesn't get confused by parentheses inside strings. paul _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel