Re: Backslash-escaped brackets in string literals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:32:58 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> However, I think the manual should be amended at this point, and that we 
> needn't require new doc strings to escape brackets in the leftmost column.  
> Would this patch be acceptable for emacs-27?

I thought I've just shown you that disregarding this issue entirely is
still premature.  I'm okay with maybe making the text less mandatory
and more a recommendation, perhaps even mentioning older Emacs
versions.  But removing it entirely? what's the rush?