Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp

[Paul Jarc]

Stephen Compall <address@hidden> wrote:
> BTW, the old \ behavior *is* documented in the manual, see Info node
> `(guile)Backslash Escapes'.
>
>     Unrecognized escape sequences are ignored: if the characters `\*'
>     appear in a string, they will be translated to the single
>     character `*'.

Since that appears in the section on regular expression syntax, not
string syntax, it seems more like description than specification.  I
think it'd be best to change that to match the new code.

>     To speed up the operation, we changed Emacs to assume that any
>     opening delimiter at the left margin is the start of a defun.

So it sounds like this would work, then:
"foo...\
\n(bar...)"


paul