Re: Misleading single "\" in Emacs Manual Section 25.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:39:08 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > > The commands in the section with a single "\" is misleading.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't think they are misleading, since the text says right away that
> > each backslash in the forms above needs to be doubled.
> 
> It is already confusing enough on how many \ are needed for some expressions 
> to be
> printed (e.g. for regex expressions).  
> 
> When the topic is about documentation strings, the commands should conform to 
> what
> one would type in the documentation string.  

I disagree.

> Some readers will initially think that they should write \= in their
> string directly.

Only if they fail to pay attention to the note about doubling the
backslashes.