Hi Mark, On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:01:42 -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > This is a question about sensors.conf syntax: > > For a quoted string, libsensors currently accepts C language escape sequences > like '\n' for newline, etc. It also accepts octal escapes, like '\015', but > for some reason it doesn't accept hex escapes, like '\x20'. > > Question: is anyone actually using these escapes? > > I wouldn't mind getting rid of them. I've never seen them used. I agree that octal escapes don't sound very useful, assuming libsensors accepts all character values in quoted strings, and not only the 32-127 range. Same applies to C language escape sequences, except \n, as I guess there is no other way to include a newline in a string? Then the question is, how much does it cost? It's not a totally unreasonable feature, so we'd need a good reason to get rid of it. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
