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bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names |
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Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:42:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>>> . and \. are different syntactic entities.
>>
>> So the answer is "no"?
>
> \. is a symbol.
I know. So are foo. and foo\. -- the same symbol. If your point is
that "." should always be quoted in symbols because the standalone
`.' symbol has to be quoted (to avoid special-casing anything here), then
that's fair enough, but I wondered whether there was anything further
beyond that.
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