My vote is for ! (The ! is not meant to be escaped 8-] ). Maybe we
could start a fund drive, and who ever successfully implements \
escaping would win the prize.
.hc
On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
i don't think that this is the main reason for not allowing some more
characters. if you allow backslash as an escaping character in pd, you will get
into serious problems when windows users try to load
"C:\files\patch.pd", or should it read "C:\Program\ Files\patch.pd" ?
what does this mean ??Hmm, i don't understand... what's the problem about an encoding
"C:\Program\ Files\patch.pd", or as used in pd "C:/Program\
Files/patch.pd" ? It's not only about filenames... as symbols can hold all possible
characters, we (or me at least) would also like to enter it in the
patch editor. There are numerous applications (like a text-based
composition that i'm working on now) that would profit from this
possibility.and windowsers will immediately start using backslash as directory
delimiter, while unixers will use it as escape.Since i use Windows, OSX and Linux, also with mounted volumes across
system-boundaries, i don't see why others shouldn't be able to handle
that.I really can't think of why \ should be dropped if it's possible to
use it as _the_ common-place escape character. Maybe someone can
enlighten me about Miller's possible reasons to do so. But there's always the devel branch where such things can be tried
out...best greetings, Thomas
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