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bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:48:38 -0700 (PDT) |
> >> > The name of the symbol is "foo.", not "foo\.".
> >>
> >> Both refer to the same symbol, as does "\foo.".
> >
> > Not as `symbol-name' values, they don't.
>
> It's showing a symbol, not the result of calling symbol-name on it.
Yes, we know.
> > The point is to show the symbol _name_, and to do so in a
> > way that is clear to anyone.
>
> The point is to show a symbol, unambigously.
The point of this bug report is that the symbol's name should be
shown clearly. The symbol is already printed using prin1 in the
signature: (foo\.)
Show it as Lisp when showing Lisp. Show it as a symbol name, as
is the Emacs convention, in help text. And in that case, show it
enclosed in `...'.
> >> > Or better yet, to remove all ambiguity, even for characters
> >> > such as SPC in the function name, enclose the name in `...':
> >>
> >> The name as printed is already unambigous.
> >
> > "bar\ is a Lisp function." is not only unclear; it is incorrect.
>
> Of course it's incorrect, but describe-function will never generate
> that.
Why don't you read the bug report and try the recipe for yourself,
starting with `emacs -Q'? That's exactly what `describe-funcction'
"generates":
(defun bar\ () (message "BARRRR"))
`C-h f RET' with point on "bar\ ":
bar\ is a Lisp function.
(bar\ )
Not documented.
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Drew Adams, 2016/03/27
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Drew Adams, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Drew Adams, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Drew Adams, 2016/03/28
- bug#23130: 25.1.50; `C-h f' etc.: escaping in symbol names, Andreas Schwab, 2016/03/28