On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 15:24 +0100, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > An escape sequence is defined as the escape character (a > <backslash> > that is neither in a bracket expression nor itself escaped), > followed > by any single character.
The ordering of that sounds like ruling out '[\]n' to be an escape sequence. > > or it could be split into two sentences along the lines of your > original > suggestion: > > An escape sequence is defined as the escape character followed > by any single character. The escape character is a <backslash> > that is neither in a bracket expression nor itself escaped. I think it should be the 2nd one, see https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1546#c5781 Cheers, Chris.
