Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu 07 Feb 2013 10:12, David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: > >> Rationale: GUILE already supports a number of escapes not defined in the >> Scheme standard. Emacs Lisp modes and derivative modes treat opening >> parens in the first column of a file specially, resynchronizing function >> boundaries. The respective manual entry states: >> >> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Left-Margin-Paren.html> >> >> Being able to escape opening parens makes it possible to write >> Emacs-friendly Guile code. > > It's not a bad idea. I'm hesitant to add new string syntax, though, and > would appreciate input from other people before going ahead with this. > > You can of course work around this with hex escapes, though that is not > very readable.
A slightly better workaround is using \ at the end of the preceding line and \n( on the afflicted line itself. But it does not exactly win a beauty competition either. -- David Kastrup
