Various issues

[i don't normally send bunched-up mail, but i'm on vacation and typing on
a danish keyboard, which messes with my brain.]

* The table 2.1 in the tutorial, "Special characters in the "print"
command", seems to be out of place. Or at least, it should be repeated in
the reference manual either under :print or in the list of variables.

* Adding line breaks a-la python in AAP :commands isn't possible due to
syntactic ambiguity. What would

	:route a b
		c d
		e
		f g h

mean? Adding a colon in there somewhere would help.

* Actions that create temporary files, like

:action turn B A
	@tempfile=sufreplace("",".bla",source)
	:sys foo $source > $tempfile
	:sys bar $tempfile > $target
	:sys rm -f $tempfile

have a cleanup problem - what if foo fails? or bar? worse still, $target
might be created and empty but newer-dated by the shell redirection, even
if bar fails. It'd be nice to have a cleanup attribute or an exception
mechanism in actions to be able to do such cleanup (maybe all it needs is
documenting)

* :do something $source { filetype=h } sets the source name to
$source{filetype=h} - not what you would expect. And sufreplace() on such
a broken filename leaves the trailing } in place.

* stuff in my pipeline:
	- large updates to the tutorial,
	- adding support for dir supportin :child so you can say :child
dirname and have AAP read that as :child dirname/main.aap
	- adding support for multiple children, so you can say :child dir1
dir2 dir3

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