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RE: Emacs version and LISP interpretation


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Emacs version and LISP interpretation
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:43:27 -0800

> > So the answer is that you need to change (insert ?\s) to 
> > (insert ?\s ).  That is, leave at least one space after the \s.
> 
> No, ?\s is new, so ?\s won't work even if you add a space after it.
> The old syntax is ?\  (where the space after the backslash is 
> important).

Right, my bad; good catch.  What you say is what I meant to say:
change (insert ?\s) to (insert ?\ ), where, as you point out, the space is
important.

(I was no doubt confusing the SPC char syntax with the regexp syntax for
matching a whitespace char, which is `\s ' or `\s-'.)




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