Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Mar 21, 2009, 01:10 UTC
Message-ID: <87zlff8yuf.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <200903210135.33729.agruen@suse.de>

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> 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

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