Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[David Kastrup]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 09/01/2015 02:22 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> So if ` and ' are supposed to be "markup" for ‘ and ’, we obviously need
>> a markup variant for either code passages or unmolested ` and '.
>>
>> Has anything like that been proposed?
>
> We have \\= escaping syntax, see `substitute-command-keys'.

Spells more or less death for cut&paste from some help buffer into the
_source_ of a DOC string, doesn't it?  Sure, backslashes already have
that effect, but at least this is due to string syntax rather than some
obscure markup processor.

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David Kastrup