Re: quote bashslash in a shell command

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> If you use the paredit minor mode in emacs lisp mode buffers, then M-"
>> paredit-doublequote will double the backquotes.
>
> Neat! Thanks.
>
> I use paredit, but not this paredit-doublequote.
>
>> Unfortunately, since | is an escape character in lisp, if you paste a
>> shell pipe with an odd number of | in elisp, select it and M-", it will
>> signal an Unbalanced parentheses error and not do the work. 
>>
>> Instead you can add a | at the end to make an even number of them,
>> select the shell expression and type M-".
>
> Seems I don't have this problem.

It depends whether you are in emacs-lisp-mode or lisp-mode.
Indeed, in emacs-lisp-mode, | is not an escape character, so the problem
doesn't occur. I tried it in lisp-mode.


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