Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

[David Kastrup]

"Sean O'Rourke" <address@hidden> writes:

> "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     No.  There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter.  The 4
>>     before the H is a character count.  And H stands for "Hollerith code",
>>     the punch card predecessor of "ASCII code".
>>
>> Another advantage of 4H^.*\n is that you can join the 4H club.
>>
>> However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed
>> backwards.
>
> Yes, but there are 4HclubH4s for every taste.  Imagine trying to
> explain that design decision to someone in 10 years...

I don't think that font-lock patterns can be made to deal with that
currently, so this is definitely not stuff we should be considering
for the next release.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum