Re: Escape syntax in docstrings

[Ruijie Yu]

Hello,

Chen Zhaoyang <chenzhauyang@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear friends,
>
> Since when did emacs become stricter when enforcing the escape syntax in
> docstrings? On 27.1 (built by debian), this function evals to no error:
>
> (defun slash-in-docstring ()
>  "\x -> x"
>  nil)
>
> [...]
>
> Can we document this change of behavior?

This issue has been reported in bug#62224 as well.  Apparently after the
OP reported the bug, Eli made changes to the documentation accordingly
-- although I myself don't know where exactly to look.

--
Best,


RY