Re: [Groff] Re: groff .cc page trap issue

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ian,

> When a trap occurs, a macro executes.  The commands in that macro have
> no way of knowing what the current control character might be when the
> trap triggers.  You can't have ".ecs" or ".cc ." at the start of the
> macro; because, "." might not be the control character.  We need some
> escape sequence that *always* works as the control character and that
> is not affected by users playing with ".cc @".

Would an alternative to \. be to have the escape character temporarily
set to whatever it was when the trap was set for the duration of the
macro?  Just an idea, I don't know enough about the internals to see the
flaws...

Cheers,


Ralph.