Re: Escaping quotes in docstrings, Was: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..."

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/02/2015 09:57 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> I've seen highlighting vanish, but I've never seen the characters
> change. Anyway....

Try that with prettify-symbols-mode.

> > Why? I'm assuming the value is separated from the other contents by
> > whitespace
> > or newlines.
>
> I don't think that's a safe assumption.  It's common for quoted
> help-values to be jammed into the middle of other text.

I'd need an example. But anyway, this question will be moot if we 
delegate escaping to the lower level.

> But buffer-substring-no-properties has no properties in the result,
> right?  So effectively they're removed.

No, they remain on the text. We just use a small piece of it, without 
properties, to change the appearance of the said text (compose-region 
adds an extra property).

> And what about the TAB?

Indeed, it's a problem in that implementation. But anyway, again, we're 
unlikely to end up using it.