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Re: error: Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape


From: Anselm Helbig
Subject: Re: error: Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:34:36 +0200
User-agent: SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (Shijō) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI)

Hi!

> It's the line (setq default-directory "C:\Users\Charles") thats
> causing the problem. (cd "C:\Users\Charles") raised the same error
> too.

You have to escape backslashes in strings like this:

  (cd "C:\\Users\\Charles")

See (info "(emacs) Init Syntax") for some more hints. 

Regards, 

Anselm


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