Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/19/2015 11:01 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > That aside, hardcoding the usage of a specific property might not be ideal,
> > because then the buffer using the output can't change the presentation
> > too easily.
>
> I was thinking of an ad-hoc property rather than a predefined one.

That seems non-ideal because the regexp engine has no way to check the 
text property on a quote character. Thus, we can't make a regexp that 
will match asd'asd in `asd\\'asd', if the escaped is handled in 
substitute-command-keys.

Although admittedly, this could be handled programmatically.