[bug #65108] [troff] support construction of general file name request arguments

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #65108 (group groff):


[comment #5 comment #5:]
> So I'm not sure whether or not you advocate retaining soelim's current
escape mechanism.  Maybe you're not yet either.

It's a question that tempts me to dither.
 
> My suggestion in comment #2 that support for soelim's escapes might need to
be dropped was based my concern that one syntax requiring backslashes for
spaces and one not would result in ambiguities in representing edge-case
filenames, such as ones containing a backslash followed by a space.  But I
think you've eliminated this possibility by not allowing a bare backslash to
represent itself, requiring it be doubled if the filename contains a
backslash.  (What miscreant named this file anyway?)

Right.

> But if soelim _is_ changed to no longer recognize "\ ", then rule 5a is
unnecessary and even a little counterintuitive.

Agreed.


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