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Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?
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Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:04:26 -0500 |
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 11:51 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Aaron Ecay wrote:
>>
>> I was surprised to learn that this is the case, in light of what is
>> said in the Elisp reference about symbol names
Most symbol names are written with letters, digits, and the
punctuation characters `-+=*/'. Such names require no special
punctuation...
> Good point; thanks. In the spirit of "be strict about what you generate",
> the Emacs printer should escape any character that is not in the list of
> characters documented in the Elisp manual as being safe (i.e., as not
> requiring escaping). This is elementary future-proofing, and is independent
> of whether we want Emacs to warn about or disallow confusable chars in
> symbols.
My impression is that manual passage was written with only ASCII
characters in mind. But since Emacs has allowed Unicode characters in
symbol names for a long time now, I don't think we should all of a
sudden declare "letters" to mean just [a-zA-Z].
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, (continued)
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Noam Postavsky, 2018/02/06
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/06
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/06
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/06
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/06
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/06
Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Aaron Ecay, 2018/02/03
- RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Drew Adams, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Paul Eggert, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Andreas Schwab, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?,
Noam Postavsky <=
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Paul Eggert, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Philipp Stephani, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Paul Eggert, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/04