At 2019-02-27T13:30:55+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > People not concerned with portability to extremely old troffs should > > probably just use \(rs (or \[rs]), as it means "the backslash > > glyph", not "the glyph corresponding to whatever the current escape > > character is". > > Thanks for the great explanation! Since some existing pages already > use '\e', I've made the switch to '\e' everywhere. You're quite welcome. In man pages, as Ingo Schwarze has noted, people should never be redefining the escape character anyway, so in the context of a man page, the distinction between \e and \(rs splits a pretty fine hair. \e admittedly has the virtue of being shorter to type. Regards, Branden
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