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24.0.50; `substitute-command-keys' doc

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8935: 24.0.50; `substitute-command-keys' doc
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:35:03 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
>
>> It has no special effect on special character combinations such as `\['
>> and `\='.  If you really want to say something about escaping `\' as
>> the next character then I suppose you could: "In particular, `\=\'
>> produces `\' in the output.
>
> This is wrong, because \ by itself has no special meaning, so you don't
> need to precede it by \=.

I see.  I thought it worked the normal way, in that "\e" would be "e".
Thanks for correcting this.  Did you do the manual, too?  If not I can
take care of that.

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