Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> writes: > To me the most obvious escape sequence would be \x for disabling whatever > special meaning x has (for non-alphabetic x). With quoting you likely > eventually end up needing \' in some cases anyway... I think it's a good idea to _avoid_ using backslash as an escape when possible -- the potential for confusion and screwups from multiple layers all interpreting backslash should be familiar to most people here... (single-quote suffers from the same problem a bit, but at least it's not quite as overused as backslash) -Miles -- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
