GNU bug report logs - #62224
30.0.50: Emacs don't, start sends an erroneous error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>

Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de, 62224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62224: 30.0.50: Emacs don't, start sends an erroneous error
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:31:34 -0700
On 3/16/2023 1:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:45:40 -0700
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
>>
>> That said, I think *technically* the manual says that "\x" is allowed:
>>
>>> You can use any number of hex digits, so you can represent any
>>> character code in this way.
>>
>> Zero is a number, after all. :) Maybe the manual needs an update to be
>> more-precise here?
> 
> I'd say that'd be a pedantic interpretation of the text, but I've
> reworded it to avoid such misinterpretation anyway.

Oh, it's very pedantic, I agree. I'm not sure anyone would have 
misinterpreted that text in practice, but I think this makes it 100% 
clear what syntax is acceptable. Thanks for the fix.




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