Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> > Is it possible to tell Emacs not to interpret escape character in a
> > certain string? If I have something like this:
> >
> >   (setq str "some\thing\escaped")
> >
> > Can this be changed without changing the literal so that Emacs takes
> > exactly what is in the string, without escaping any characters?
> >    
>
> What would you need this for?
>  
I was thinking of an easier way of handling w32 file names. When trying 
to build with MSYS it fails just because of the file name Emacs got from 
somewhere is in w32 format. It would be more easy if there was a way to 
tell Emacs that "this is just a raw string, please do not escape it".

In fact I think at least building with MSYS then would succeed - and 
that would be nice!