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

[Joey Parrish]

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.

--Joey

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