[PD] escape characters in messages

[Miller Puckette]

Good idea...  Maybe, just "addcomma" would be best.  I'm against adding
a general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design
that obviate teh need for it...

cheers
Miller

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 03:29:30PM +0200, Johannes Taelman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an escape character sequence to make special characters (',' and
> ';') in messages literal?
> 
> I need something like
> 
> +*--,
> |3   \
> +*---+
>  |
> +*-----------
> | add2 $1\, (
> +*-----------
>  |
> +*------------
> | 0, 1, 2, 3 (
> +*------------
> 
> Whenever I try to type a \ in a message box, I get
> 
> \: dropped
> \: dropped
> 
> in the console output. This is on win2k, and PD 35-1.
> 
> I found one (maybe) related comment in m_binbuf.c :
> 
> /* add a binbuf to another one for saving.  Semicolons and commas go to
> symbols ";", "'",; the symbol ";" goes to "\;", etc. */
> 
> Is this only for internal housekeeping?
> 
> Another possibility to achieve this would be an 'add1' method, that adds
> the ',', just like 'add' adds a ';'.
> 
> Other solutions?
> 
> thanks,
> j#|@
> 
> 
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