Re: filenames in error messages

[Eric Blake]

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According to Karl Berry on 2/14/2008 4:48 PM:
|     | "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.
|
| That hardly seems an insurmountable objection to me, since
| (1) many such paths will not have any special characters (such as : or a
| control character), and therefore will not be quoted, and therefore the
| \'s will just appear as-is, and

Quotearg does not now do this (if \ is present at all, the c-maybe style
adds "" and quotes it), but I can easily add that behavior (if \ appears,
but no other troublesome characters, then "" is not added and \ appears as
is, rather than doubled).  Thanks for the idea.

Meanwhile, whether or not the decision is made to go with \ vs. % quoting,
I think it shouldn't be too hard to make the quotearg module support both
styles, so I'll tackle an implementation of % quoting next.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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