Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/28/2015 08:00 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> That's right.  So we should focus on the escape rules.

Maybe I should point out again that even in master we have an 
unambiguous escaping syntax for quotes ("\\=").

Personally, I think that it's good enough (and Paul apparently agrees).

The font-lock solution has other benefits; it could implement a 
different scheme (or delegate the escaping step to 
substitute-command-keys, which seems a fine idea now, actually). But it 
currently uses the syntax that's been requested: "\\~".

So, could you participate in this discussion? What's wrong with "\\="? 
What would you prefer to see use instead? Otherwise, what areas would 
you like to see improved? It's inherently a bikeshed issue, not a 
(particularly) technical one.