GNU bug report logs - #31251
read-from-minibuffer sets print-escape-newlines; why?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:33:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: read-from-minibuffer sets print-escape-newlines; why?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:31:55 -0700

read-from-minibuffer and related functions set print-escape-newlines in 
the minibuffer, but there's no clear reason why: these functions do not 
call 'prin1' or 'print' directly, and setting print-escape-newlines 
affects behavior only in seemingly unrelated areas, such as code 
executed indirectly via activate-input-method or minibuffer-setup-hook. 
If there's no need to set print-escape-newlines then it shouldn't be 
set; if there is a need, the need should be documented. For now I'll add 
a FIXME comment about this to Emacs master.
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