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27.0.50; More helpful error message for unescaped character literals

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 31676 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31676: 27.0.50; More helpful error message for unescaped
 character literals
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:00:26 +0200

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> schrieb am Fr., 1. Juni 2018 um
12:19 Uhr:

>
> A reddit user noted these messages popping up when starting Emacs
>
> Loading ‘~/.emacs.d/init’: unescaped character literals `?[', `?]'
> detected!
>
> and wondered what to do about it.  Perhaps it would be a good idea to
> just say something like
>
> unescaped character literals `?[', `?]' detected, `?\[', `?\]' expected
>
> or something along those lines?  For Emacs 26.2.
>
>
Sounds reasonable, here's a patch.

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