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11.88; [siunitx] unit appears without backslash

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From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 19504 <19504 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Uwe Siart <uwe.siart <at> tum.de>
Subject: bug#19504: 11.88; [siunitx] unit appears without backslash
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:25:31 +0100

Hi Stefan,

2015-03-09 18:56 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> returning also empty strings.  This change is not even mentioned in
>> the Incompatible Lisp Changes section of the NEWS file.
>
> Lots of changes aren't mentioned.  Only the ones that we expect to be
> noticed are mentioned.

Well, this was noticed too ;-)

>> For the time being I don't have a solution, apart from defining
>> `TeX-completing-read-multiple' as the old version of
>> `completing-read-multiple', or someone fixing
>> `completing-read-multiple' upstream, at least making
>> trimming optional.
>
> IIUC you always need a leading \, so you could simply always add
> a leading backslash if one is missing.
> Of course, I'm not sure that IUC.

Unfortunately no, one can also insert the unit without using macros,
so we can't always add the leading backslash

Bye,
Mosè

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