On 11/01/2013 05:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/01/2013 10:29 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> This should be fully backwards and forwards compatible with previous >> escaping, since we'll never have a file name at the start of a line, >> thus '\' at the start of a line always means the file name is escaped. > > This feels like it could be a step in the wrong direction to me. I've > been arguing that we need to escape file names containing \r, for the > sake of people that transmit files with \r\n line endings compared to > files that contain a literal trailing \r.
I can see the need for that yes. Though I don't think avoiding the redundant escaping of file names with just '\' characters would impact that? thanks, Pádraig.
