Hi Michael,
Michael Baum maab...@gmail.com writes:
Yes, you're correct, Aaron, thanks. Apparently the secondary
substitutions only get processed after all the questions are asked
and the template is written out to the temp buffer. So the backslash
has to be escaped to survive the first round
Yes, you're correct, Aaron, thanks. Apparently the secondary substitutions
only get processed after all the questions are asked and the template is
written out to the temp buffer. So the backslash has to be escaped to
survive the first round of substitutions.
I kind of feel that this should be
You need to escape the backslash inside the string, I think. \1 is
interpreted as a string consisting of one character, the ASCII character
with hex code 0x01, which happens to be C-a. \\1 is a 2-character
string: backslash, then one.
--
Aaron Ecay
