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Re: ?\_ patch
From: |
Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
Re: ?\_ patch |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:44:25 -0600 (CST) |
Ken'ichi HANDA wrote:
I object to it.
By grepping, I found many files under lisp subdir are using
"?\_" for representing "?_" (e.g. calc/calc-ext.el). Some
are using ?\X unconditionaly even in the place where ?X
works.
That means there are much more such files not included in
Emacs distribution. If we change the meaning of ?\_, all of
them stop working.
I did not realize people would be doing this, especially since I saw
no recommendation to quote `_' anywhere.
I now agree with you.
This leaves two solutions: use ?\s, which is somewhat confusing, but
perfectly safe since it has been "protected" by an error message for
ages, or change the default value of tabify-regexp to leave ?\ alone.
Of course, the second solution would mean that personal customizations
of tabify-regexp would be dangerous.
I now lean toward the original solution of using ?\s.
Alternatives like using 32, ?\040 or ?\x20 do not look attractive.
Sincerely,
Luc.
- ?\_ patch, Edward O'Connor, 2003/02/05
- Re: ?\_ patch, Kenichi Handa, 2003/02/05
- Re: ?\_ patch,
Luc Teirlinck <=
- Re: ?\_ patch, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/02/05
- Re: ?\_ patch, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/02/05
- Re: ?\_ patch, Kim F. Storm, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Miles Bader, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Kim F. Storm, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Miles Bader, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/02/06
- Re: ?\_ patch, Miles Bader, 2003/02/07