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Re: Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals |
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Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:22:44 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> [ Yes, I know it's unrelated, but it's another common (minor) error. ]
> Ah yes, sorry, should have done that while at it. Now I searched for such
> cases and found lots, and decided to postpone it since it's mostly
> cosmetic --
It's both cosmetic and tricky (you have to understand enough of the
code to be sure that it's not meant to work on multiline text).
> unless we are concerned about newlines in file names, which we
> perhaps should be.
I don't think there's much reason to worry about newline in files, but
it's nice not to need to decide whether we should worry about something
or not.
Stefan