[PD] escaping \

[martin pichlmair]

hi,

is there already any way of having a backslash in a message (box)? i  
found some ancient stone carvings about that issue (pd-list 2002).  
miller said back then:

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...

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2002-10/008321.html

well .. actually if pd does not escape i got to escape for myself.  
that means that i need to find a replacement character for \ in order  
to translate it then back to \. if i take # as replacement and  
someone facing the same problems takes § then we end up with a lot  
more mess than using the backslash in pd can result in.

lg
martin
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