On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:23:35PM +0100, TSa wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >There's also <sp>, unless someone redefines the <sp> subrule. > >And in the general case that's a slightly more expensive mechanism > >to get a space (it involves at least a subrule lookup). Perhaps > >we could also create a visible meta sequence for it, in the same > >way that we have visible metas for \e, \f, \r, \t. But I have > >no idea what letter we might use there. > > How about \x and \X respectively? Note the *space* after it :) > ...
If we're going to do that, I'd think it would be "\c " and "\C " instead of "\x " and "\X ". I'm not really advocating this, I'm just commenting that in this case \c seems more natural than \x. Pm
