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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > This is part of my file. It is the only part that contains "#".
> 
> 
> > (#("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.help" 0 23 nil 23 42
>  ...
> > (#("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.programmer" 0 23 nil 23 48
> 
> Who put in the #'s?  That's not valid Emacs or XEmacs.

That looks like the FSFmacs crockish syntax for strings with text
properties.  Try this:

(let ((a "somestring"))
  (put-text-property 0 5 'foo 'bar a)
  a)
  => "somestring"				; XEmacs

  => #("somestring" 0 5 (foo bar) 5 10 nil)	; FSFmacs

Familiar?  In FSF Emacs text properties change the printed
representation of strings, and strings with properties might have
leaked to `.newsrc.eld', somehow.

This matter is even more confusing because given that Common Lisp uses
#(...)  syntax for vectors.

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