Variable: print-escape-control-characters

print-escape-control-characters is a variable defined in print.c.

Value

nil

Documentation

Non-nil means print control characters in strings as \OOO.

(OOO is the octal representation of the character code.)

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/print.c
  DEFVAR_BOOL ("print-escape-control-characters", print_escape_control_characters,
	       doc: /* Non-nil means print control characters in strings as `\\OOO'.
\(OOO is the octal representation of the character code.)*