GNU bug report logs - #23130
25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:26:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 25.1.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #61 received at 23130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 23130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:42:18 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

>>> . and \. are different syntactic entities.
>>
>> So the answer is "no"?
>
> \. is a symbol.

I know.  So are foo. and foo\. -- the same symbol.  If your point is
that "." should always be quoted in symbols because the standalone
`.' symbol has to be quoted (to avoid special-casing anything here), then
that's fair enough, but I wondered whether there was anything further
beyond that.

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