On Sat, 2023-07-01 at 18:53 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
That's not a common case I suppose,
so I'm amenable to using the consistent escaping here.
Good :-)
Info docs already contain:
"Without ‘--zero’, if FILE contains a backslash, newline, or carriage
return, the line is started with a backslash, and each problematic
character in the file name is escaped with a backslash, making the
output unambiguous even in the presence of arbitrary file names."
Well yes, but that's in like the "common" section.
Further down, for --tag, it's explicitly mentioned again there, that
there's the escaping when \ is present as leading escaping indicator.
For --untagged and --check there's no such further mentioning ... so at
least it's a bit inconsistent... and could lead people to think it
would happen only with --tag.
Actually I'd even more "definitely" describe the escaping algorithm
above, in the sense that any \ \r and \n are escaped, and that any
other \-sequence (like \" \0 \xXX etc.) are explicitly reserved for
future use.
This especially in hindsight that other tools may also use the
tagged/unttaged output formats and add their own add-ons assuming
they're free to do so.