From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:10:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
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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