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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: | Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:12:39 +0300 |
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On 06/30/2015 04:50 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Why can't we use just \ instead of \= ?
We can (and that's what my first proposal did), but it'll require changing a certain amount of existing docstrings, and some of them will look less nice as a result. Such as substitute-command-keys one, where we'll have to escape all those backslashes. Adding a yet-another quoting method is not ideal either.
However, if we change \= to \ as the quoting method in substitute-command-keys as well, that will be less of a problem. Backward compatibility might be, but I've seen no evidence thus far, of \= being used anywhere outside of Emacs core.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-06/msg00646.html
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