GNU bug report logs - #75113
29.4; Lispref Manual: backslash before newline

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:04:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 75113-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75113: 29.4; Lispref Manual: backslash before newline
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:05:59 +0200

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:03:41 +0100
> 
> Subsection "Basic Char Syntax" in objects.texi says:
> "You can also add a backslash before whitespace characters such as
> space, tab, newline and formfeed."
> 
> AFAICS this information isn't accurate for newline. ?\<newline> is
> invalid escape character syntax, and \<newline> inside a string is not a
> literal newline either but a line continuation.

Thanks, I've now removed the inaccurate parts from that section (on
the emacs-30 branch), and I'm therefore closing this bug.
This bug report was last modified 205 days ago.

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