[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/src/lread.c

[Kim F. Storm]

Index: emacs/src/lread.c
diff -c emacs/src/lread.c:1.310 emacs/src/lread.c:1.311
*** emacs/src/lread.c:1.310     Sat Feb 22 13:22:53 2003
--- emacs/src/lread.c   Tue Feb 25 07:29:03 2003
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*** 2258,2263 ****
--- 2258,2270 ----
        if (c < 0)
          end_of_file_error ();
  
+       /* Accept `single space' syntax like (list ? x) where the
+          whitespace character is SPC or TAB.
+          Other literal whitespace like NL, CR, and FF are not accepted,
+          as there are well-established escape sequences for these.  */
+       if (c == ' ' || c == '\t')
+         return make_number (c);
+ 
        if (c == '\\')
          c = read_escape (readcharfun, 0, &discard);
        else if (BASE_LEADING_CODE_P (c))