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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/modes.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/objects.texi | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/modes.texi b/doc/lispref/modes.texi index 7283930507f..c554ccdf4a0 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/modes.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/modes.texi @@ -3287,7 +3287,8 @@ assigned using the ordering as a guide. @table @code @item font-lock-warning-face @vindex font-lock-warning-face -for a construct that is peculiar, or that greatly changes the meaning of +for a construct that is peculiar (e.g., an unescaped confusable quote +in an Emacs Lisp symbol like @samp{‘foo}), or that greatly changes the meaning of other text, like @samp{;;;###autoload} in Emacs Lisp and @samp{#error} in C. diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi index d9971f6839e..e948814d1f7 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi @@ -424,7 +424,11 @@ without a special escape meaning; thus, @samp{?\+} is equivalent to characters. However, you must add a backslash before any of the characters @samp{()[]\;"}, and you should add a backslash before any of the characters @samp{|'`#.,} to avoid confusing the Emacs commands -for editing Lisp code. You can also add a backslash before whitespace +for editing Lisp code. You should also add a backslash before Unicode +characters which resemble the previously mentioned @acronym{ASCII} +ones, to avoid confusing people reading your code. Emacs will +highlight some non-escaped commonly confused characters such as +@samp{‘} to encourage this. You can also add a backslash before whitespace characters such as space, tab, newline and formfeed. However, it is cleaner to use one of the easily readable escape sequences, such as @samp{\t} or @samp{\s}, instead of an actual whitespace character such |