Re: Processing escape sequences

Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:45:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.source-highlight.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dario Teixeira wrote:
> 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!

OK, no problem, it's always nice to hear that it's not 
source-highlight's fault ;)

cheers
	Lorenzo

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