Subject: Re: bug#75113: 29.4; Lispref Manual: backslash before newline
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Ulrich Müller <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:05:59 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Ulrich Müller <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:03:41 +0100
> 
> Subsection "Basic Char Syntax" in objects.texi says:
> "You can also add a backslash before whitespace characters such as
> space, tab, newline and formfeed."
> 
> AFAICS this information isn't accurate for newline. ?\<newline> is
> invalid escape character syntax, and \<newline> inside a string is not a
> literal newline either but a line continuation.

Thanks, I've now removed the inaccurate parts from that section (on
the emacs-30 branch), and I'm therefore closing this bug.