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Re: How to actually print single ‘\’ character?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to actually print single ‘\’ character?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:29:55 +0200
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On December 23, 2020 12:04:37 PM GMT+02:00, Pankaj Jangid 
<pankaj@codeisgreat.org> wrote:
> 
> >> I have tried:
> >> 
> >> ‘"this \\ is a single embedded backslash"’
> >> 
> >> inside ‘format’ and ‘message’ functions. It prints two backslashes.
> >
> > It does?  What exactly did you try, and wbere did you see 2
> backslashes?
> 
> As I was reading, I was trying in the “*scratch*” buffer and
> evaluating
> using “C-x e”. Tried to pring in “*Message*” buffer using “(message)”
> function as well.

After using "C-x C-e", did you look in *Messages* to make sure you are not 
confusing what 'message' prints with what it returns?



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