prin1-to-string noescape parameter

[Oleh Krehel]

Hi all,

I'm trying to write some code that formats/restructures Elisp source
files (a la Paredit).  But instead of using text manipulation,
I want to read the object in, manipulate it and print it
out.

One issue that I'm facing is:

    (prin1-to-string (read "(foo.bar baz?)"))
    => "(foo\\.bar baz\\?)"

I tried to overcome this with:

    (prin1-to-string (read "(foo.bar baz?)") t)
    => "(foo.bar baz?)"

But another problem resurfaces instead:

    (prin1-to-string (read "(foo \"bar\")") t)
    => "(foo bar)"

Even worse:

     (prin1-to-string (read "(foo \";bar\")") t)
     => "(foo ;bar)"

I think a fix to the issue would be to split the `escapeflag'
parameter of the `print_object' C function into two parts. Currently a
single bool flag decides if to escape strings or not, and if to escape
certain characters or not.

Any other suggestions to overcome this issue are welcome as well, so
far I've tried setting `print-quoted', `print-escape-multibyte', and
`print-escape-nonascii'.

regards,
Oleh