Re: RFI: Trailing blanks

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> So we are looking for specially non special characters. @address@hidden

Paul> Any repeated character will make the string more likely.

Paul> How about @&address@hidden  That would be easy to remember as expanding to
Paul> the empty string, as the mnemonic would be "amp tee".  (Here's
Paul> where I duck to avoid being hit by a tomato....)

& is special: I've been bitten by this AWK program:

      gsub ("@comment.*", "@&t@", line);

which of course had the result of prefixing with @, suffixing with &@.

I backlashed it and it works, but do we want to keep sth like this?