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Re: Make Emacs print "^J" instead of "\n" with `print-escape-newlines'?


From: Thorsten Jolitz
Subject: Re: Make Emacs print "^J" instead of "\n" with `print-escape-newlines'?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:41:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> writes:

> * Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> in gnu.emacs.help:
>> > is there any way to make Emacs print "^J" instead of "\n" with
>> > (print-escape-newlines t)?
>
>> But I would still be interested in the first part.
>
> I think you would need to modify the following part of src/print.c:
>
>           if (c == '\n' && print_escape_newlines)
>         {
>           PRINTCHAR ('\\');
>           PRINTCHAR ('n');
>         }
>
> (not sure how to tell PRINTCHAR to print ^J) and recompile Emacs.

I see, although thats probably a bit too low-level for me. But thanks
for the hint, it motivated me to finally download the Emacs sources, the
C code seems to be quite readable - even when not knowing much about C
at all.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




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