Subject: Re: 23.1; I can not understand a sentence.
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: waterloo <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:29:30 -0400

> In 2.3.3.1 Basic Char Syntax of Emacs Lisp Reference, I can not
> understant the last sentence in parenthesis.
>
> `\ ' is equal `space'. Why need an extra space after `\ ' to seperate
> it from the following text.

Because spaces are also used to separate Lisp objects.  For such
questions, please send email to help-gnu-emacs rather than bug-gnu-emacs
in the future.  Thanks:

  http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs