Re: [PATCH] Raw strings, from Python via SXEmacs

Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: A forward compatibility problem rather than one of backward compatibility, surely? #r"your text here" gives a syntax error in 21.4 and GNU Emacs, so there’s no code in the wild for those platforms that uses that syntax, old code works fine. Compatibility problems will arise when people choose to use raw string syntax in code they release, which I agree should not be done for a few releases. (Anyway, when you’re developing your code, you can use raw strings for your regexes, and then hit C-u C-x C-e to insert the normal string representations of same, then comment out the raw strings. Though that is ugly and error-prone, I suspect) And attractive convenience _is_ added functionality! We share packages with SXEmacs, so compatibility there is relevant. I do not mean to suggest that it’s more relevant than compatibility with GNU. (And the posted version of the patch is incompatible with SXEmacs if you use Unicode escapes; I didn’t post the patch primarily because of SXEmacs compatibility, I posted it mostly because I think it’s a really useful feature and I’d like to see it in XEmacs.) (Tangent; oh Jesus fuck does anyone have any suggestions as to where to start when looking for the dropping-characters-with-Linux-and-ncurses 21.5 bug!?! This is driving me insane.) Sure. -- Santa Maradona, priez pour moi!