[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] suboption escaping

[Joey Parrish]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:16:46PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:21:24PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:09:44AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:10:11AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:59:26PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > > > > And I would, from a Unix point of view, naturally expect MPlayer to
> > > > > allow escaping using a backslash.  So where should I document this?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know, I put it in the general usage section of the man page.
> > > 
> > > May I make a request: have escaping be disabled unless some global
> > > option to enable escaping is used. That way it will not interfere with
> > > users who have no use for it. Sound ok?
> > 
> > This makes little sense to me.  Describe a situation, please, where
> > escaping a string will cause a user grief.
> 
> When specifying a string or filename that contains the escape
> character.

A specific example, please?  It's my contention that this will not
happen much, and that those people can learn what escaping is.  Again, I
believe this is not a foreign concept to most Unix/Linux users.
Linux/Unix users account for most of our command-line user-base.

--Joey

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