Re: [Help-source-highlight] Processing escape sequences

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > In the output, the "\n" sequence is translated into an actual newline,
> > instead of being displayed as character "\" followed by character "n".
> > Now, I can create a translation table to get around this problem, but
> > it still strikes me as a bug (or feature?) of sorts.  Why is the library
> > performing escape expansion in the first place?
>
> (Facepalm) Please disregard the above; after some head scratching,
> I found out the library I was using for filtering the output had
> a poorly documented feature that performed the escape expansion
> automatically... :-)  Problem found!

OK, no problem, it's always nice to hear that it's not 
source-highlight's fault ;)

cheers
        Lorenzo

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