Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string

[Daniel Brooks]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Mär 03 2021, Daniel Brooks wrote:
>
>> Also, I think it's pretty funny that you suggest we should be using
>> Bash's raw strings because they are useful, and simultaneously that it
>> would not be useful for Emacs to have raw strings.
>
> There is nothing wrong with using existing solutions.

That's a rather good point.

Bash already exists, and someone else is already doing the
maintenance. The implementation effort was spent decades ago, and the
burden of maintaining that implementation appears to fall on a single
person, Chet Ramey. Possibly there are a few others who help out (plus
there are the maintainers of compatible shells, who must do similar
maintenance work). The benefit is spread out over millions of people
world–wide. It is certainly good for us to take advantage of Bash
features like single–quoted strings, since they benefit us and cost us
nothing.

Meanwhile, we have dozens of people here who regularly help maintain
Emacs, so I don't think it would be too hard for us to provide the same
benefit to our users, and ourselves.

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