On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:21:14AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Bjarni, > > On 1/1/19 10:51 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > Use '\e' for printing the escape character, not '\\'. > > You do not say why such a change is desirable. > The '\\' is interpreted in copy mode but '\e' not. See reference CSTR #54 (page 7) mentioned in roff(7). -- Bjarni I. Gislason