Re: How to really escape a double quote?

[David Kastrup]

"MarkS." <throaway@yahoo.com> writes:

> This is a two part question, but both parts are looking for how to
> escape a double quote AND have it work with Emacs.
>
> I was looking for a way to make Emacs delete inside of delimiters the
> way Vim does. I found some code that some nice person had written. The
> key search line is like:
>
>   (skip-chars-backward "^(<[“") (setq p1 (point))
>
> but there's no double quote, which is what I need most often. I looked
> up Emacs/lisp documentation on-line, and it said that I could escape a
> double-quote with a slash. So I tried changing the line to:
>
>   (skip-chars-backward "\"^(<[“") (setq p1 (point))

^ loses its special meaning if it is not the first character of the
string.  So move your escaped double-quote one position to the right.

-- 
David Kastrup