URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68361>
Summary: [troff] want style warning when `\.` or `\\` used in
interpretation mode
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Mon 18 May 2026 11:52:34 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 18 May 2026 11:52:34 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Spawned off of bug #62776.
Quoting that bug's comment 28:
> * `\\` encountered in interpretation mode (comment #17)
> * `\.` encountered in interpretation mode (comment #17)
I recall thinking that these two might be difficult. I don't remember why.
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