Re: Processing escape sequences

Dario Teixeira <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:07:21 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.source-highlight.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> In the output, the "\n" sequence is translated into an actual newline,
> instead of being displayed as character "\" followed by character "n".
> Now, I can create a translation table to get around this problem, but
> it still strikes me as a bug (or feature?) of sorts.  Why is the library
> performing escape expansion in the first place?

(Facepalm) Please disregard the above; after some head scratching,
I found out the library I was using for filtering the output had
a poorly documented feature that performed the escape expansion
automatically... :-)  Problem found!

Best regards,
Dario Teixeira