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Re: Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:35:27 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> I don't actually know which form of paths current Windows MI clients
> use. I agree that it would be convenient if they mostly used forward
> slashes; but it looks like Eclipse uses native backslashed paths
> primarily, so I've some interest in supporting them (to perturb Eclipse
> as little as possible).
If we want to support backslashes on Windows _and_ backslash-escaping
without lots of ugly system-dependent code, then we will have to
require to double each backslash. Which I think will be inconvenient.