Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
What does "got from somewhere" mean? Could you provide an example? > 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! AUCTeX has to deal with strings passed into Emacs via MSYS, too, and it usually does this with the equivalent of emacs --eval '(do-something-with (pop command-line-args-left))' "$FILENAME" -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
