Re: prin1-char error

[Juri Linkov]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     Now (prin1-char ?A) returns "?A", and (prin1-char ?\S-a) returns "?A".
>> 
>> ?\S-a isn't really used in Emacs; it uses ?A instead.
>
> Well, but as long as ?\S-a actually returns a value, then prin1-char
> should convert this value back to "?\\S-a", I think.
>
> And if that value is different from ?A, then I don't see anything
> wrong with prin1-char preserving the difference.

As I can see, yesterday Richard fixed lisp-mode.el, so now it seems to
work all right:

(prin1-char ?A) returns "?A"
(prin1-char ?\S-a) returns "?\\S-a"

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Juri Linkov
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