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An Elisp function for escaping special characters in Haddock's @ code blocks
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haddock-escape.el
; See http://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html#idp1371070500
; and http://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html#idp1371060908
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; Examples:
; \, /, ', `, ", @, < ===> \\, \/, \', \`, \", \@, \<
; foo `fmap` bar "/a/b" ===> foo \`fmap\` bar \"\/a\/b\"
(defun haddock-escape (start end)
"Escape symbols that have special meaning in Haddock comments."
(interactive "r")
(replace-regexp "\\([^\\\\]?\\)\\(`\\|'\\|\\\"\\|@\\|<\\|/\\|\\\\\\)" "\\1\\\\\\2" nil start end))
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