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Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:55:47 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Stephen Compall <address@hidden> wrote:
> BTW, the old \ behavior *is* documented in the manual, see Info node
> `(guile)Backslash Escapes'.
>
> Unrecognized escape sequences are ignored: if the characters `\*'
> appear in a string, they will be translated to the single
> character `*'.
Since that appears in the section on regular expression syntax, not
string syntax, it seems more like description than specification. I
think it'd be best to change that to match the new code.
> To speed up the operation, we changed Emacs to assume that any
> opening delimiter at the left margin is the start of a defun.
So it sounds like this would work, then:
"foo...\
\n(bar...)"
paul