Package: emacs;
Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:53:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 30.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> To: 67033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#67033: 30.0.50; Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, escapes in strings Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:52:09 -0500
In Info, in the node Strings and Characters, there is no obvious link to the info about the read syntax of strings (or that if characters). Neither is there any in its subnode Basic. In the node Lisp Data Types, there is a subnode Printed Representation. However, that subnode does not offer any way to get to the printed representations of specific data types, including strings. Its subnode Programming Types has a subnode String Type. It does not say anythng about how to represent a carriage return or where to find that info. It has a subnode Syntax for Strings. But that too says nothing about how to represent control characters in a string constant and gives no link for that. A later subnode, Nonprinting Characters in Strings, also does not say anythng about how to represent a carriage return. I was really looking for that info -- I had forgotten it was \r -- and I was really looking at all these nodes, and finding no help. Eventually I looked at nodes about characters and found the answer there. But the nodes about strings ought to help the user find that. I think several of the nodes I mentioned above should have links to the string syntax, and the main string syntax node should have a link to the info on \-sequences for strings. In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.32, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-07-03 built on freetop Repository revision: a5bf0ae66141e7560f70a045c0dea132a4868c87 Repository branch: master System Description: Trisquel GNU/Linux Nabia (10.0) Configured using: 'configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g' --with-gnutls=ifavailable' Configured features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK2 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: linux auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. 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