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

[Rich Felker]

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.

Rich