# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <rik@octave.org>
# Date 1515047454 28800
# Node ID d8ed90ecd4fdfaa529464091fa60d0b1efaca212
# Parent  85ace8208635b4f758ace96438f23c727ae0ddd7
doc: Add documentation for '\' string continuation marker (bug #52774).

* op-kw-docs: Add to docstring for '\' to note that it is also
string continuation marker.

diff -r 85ace8208635 -r d8ed90ecd4fd libinterp/op-kw-docs
--- a/libinterp/op-kw-docs	Wed Jan 03 22:21:03 2018 -0800
+++ b/libinterp/op-kw-docs	Wed Jan 03 22:30:54 2018 -0800
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 @deftypefn {} {} ...
 Continuation marker.
 
-Joins current line with following line.
+Joins current line with following line before parsing.
 @end deftypefn
 &
 @c libinterp/parse-tree/oct-parse.in.yy
@@ -296,6 +296,9 @@
 -*- texinfo -*-
 @deftypefn {} {} \
 Left division operator.
+
+Within double-quoted strings, @samp{\} is the line continuation marker used
+to join the current line with the following line.
 @seealso{.\\, /, ldivide, mldivide}
 @end deftypefn
 :