Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/01/2015 03:06 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> > We have \\= escaping syntax, see `substitute-command-keys'.
>
> Spells more or less death for cut&paste from some help buffer into the
> _source_ of a DOC string, doesn't it?  Sure, backslashes already have
> that effect, but at least this is due to string syntax rather than some
> obscure markup processor.

Like you said, any escaping syntax spells death for cut&paste.

Due to how Elisp reader works, we simply can't use backslashes in the 
docstrings. Or we'll need a lot of them.