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Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" |
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Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:12:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>>>Is it possible to tell Emacs not to interpret escape character in a
>>>certain string? If I have something like this:
>>>
>>> (setq str "some\thing\escaped")
>>>
>>>Can this be changed without changing the literal so that Emacs takes
>>>exactly what is in the string, without escaping any characters?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>What would you need this for?
>>
> I was thinking of an easier way of handling w32 file names. When
> trying to build with MSYS it fails just because of the file name
> Emacs got from somewhere is in w32 format.
What does "got from somewhere" mean? Could you provide an example?
> It would be more easy if there was a way to tell Emacs that "this is
> just a raw string, please do not escape it".
>
> In fact I think at least building with MSYS then would succeed - and
> that would be nice!
AUCTeX has to deal with strings passed into Emacs via MSYS, too, and
it usually does this with the equivalent of
emacs --eval '(do-something-with (pop command-line-args-left))' "$FILENAME"
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/08
- Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Lennart Borgman, 2005/07/08
- Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/09
- Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Lennart Borgman, 2005/07/09
- Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/10
- Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Lennart Borgman, 2005/07/10
- Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw", Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/11