Hello Paolo, * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:36:25AM CET: > > >Not really. I've yet to see a 'program --help' output that contained > >backslashes. But oh well, I guess it doesn't matter now. > > Not a configure script, but GNU echo does include backslashes, as does > GNU tr.
Alright, convinced. FWIW, none of the programs in the Autoconf package use backslashes in their --help output (and really the hunk I was commenting on was about the 'autoconf' program only). Cheers, Ralf
