Re: filenames in error messages

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 2/13/2008 8:41 PM:
|> program:"embedded colon:, quote\", and spaces":line: message
|> program:"http://example.com/file":line: message
|
| "C escapes" means to use the backslash character as escape character.
| This is a particularly bad choice, because - as you know - on some systems,
| backslahes are used as directory separator.
|
| There are better choices for the escape character.

Are you advocating the following, then?  (the middle file, unquoted, is
`colon: quote" percent% delimiter>')

program:simple:line: message
program:<colon: quote" percent%25 delimiter%3e>:line: message
program:<http://example.com/file>:line: message

I suppose I could add that style into quotearg, but I would like some
consensus first that this style is more pleasing than "c-maybe", as coded
so far.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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