Re: removing spaces from a string

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:
> How to interpret ?\ ?  Where can I learn about this?

I assume in the elisp info documentation.

(info "(elisp)Character Type")

Note that ?\x interprets x specially,
while     ?x  interprets x literally.

It just happens that ?\   (? \ SPC) falls in the default case of ?\,
where its interpreted as space.  But ?\a is not ?a.


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