Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> writes: > Is it to complex to have a syntax that is similar to what the shell > does? Two solutions pop into my mind. Please let me know, why these are > not use. You can point me to previous discussions.
> Idea 1: Use a escape sequence for specifying a whitespace (e.g. "\ " for > a space). > Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. Yeah, both of those were among the other syntax proposals that were suggested, and I think one of them was in the document at one point. Using backslash is probably the easiest, although it does make parsing the files harder. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqdy184s....@windlord.stanford.edu
