Re: ... indentation bug http://debbugs.gnu.org/14399

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/15/2013 01:10 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 15 May 2013 13:08, c.<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On 15 May 2013, at 17:42, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > I like this version too, but I prefer to use \ instead of ...
> >
> > I thought use of \ for breaking lines was discouraged?
>
> jwe doesn't like them, but I do. I don't think it actually causes a
> problem. Then again, jwe is usually able to foresee problems a lot
> better than I do, so perhaps you should listen to him and not me.
>
> I would like to keep \ as a line continuation for as long as it's
> feasible and it's not demonstrably getting in the way.

I don't plan to remove it, but I do plan to change the way continuations 
are handled in string constants so that they only kind of continuation 
that is possible in a string constant is a backslash followed directly 
by a newline character.

jwe