Re: backslashes in escape rules

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:51:36 +0200
John Mandereau <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2008/07/04 17:38 -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
> > Which should I use?  "foo", "\\foo", or "\\\\foo" ?
> 
> I guess the motivation for using "foo" iso. "\\\\foo" for regexp
> substitution is making docs updating easier, as running text or
> comments sometimes mention the command name without the backslash.

That should never happen.  If people use commands in the running
text at all -- which they're supposed to avoid if at all possible
-- then they should *definitely* use "\foo".

Cheers,
- Graham