[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

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On 1/19/22 9:12 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <ss9lil$764$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
...
>> In bash, escaping a special character is simple - you just add a
>> backslash in front of the special character, so ' would become \'
>> instead. I think that's vastly better and cleaner than how it is
>> done in DCL.
> 
> Interestingly, I was searching a .tex file.  \<anything> are TeX control
> codes.  :-|
> 
On VMS:
$ ty helloworld.tex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
$Hello world!$ %math mode
\end{document}
$ grep "\\end" helloworld.tex
\end{document}
$
Same command works in bash, although one would prefer
$ grep '\\end' helloworld.tex