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25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 23130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:26:30 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> > The name of the symbol is "foo.", not "foo\.".
>> 
>> Both refer to the same symbol, as does "\foo.".
>
> Not as `symbol-name' values, they don't.

It's showing a symbol, not the result of calling symbol-name on it.

> The point is to show the symbol _name_, and to do so in a
> way that is clear to anyone.

The point is to show a symbol, unambigously.

>> > Or better yet, to remove all ambiguity, even for characters
>> > such as SPC in the function name, enclose the name in `...':
>> 
>> The name as printed is already unambigous.
>
> "bar\ is a Lisp function." is not only unclear; it is incorrect.

Of course it's incorrect, but describe-function will never generate
that.

Andreas.

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