From: Jason Grosland <jcg3@cs.duke.edu>
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  Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:53:39 -0500

Re: clarification

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, David Bartoli wrote:

> "home-boy"
> 
> you would want to be able to index "home" & "boy", but this would

You might want to have backslashes signify when to interpret one of the
control characters as itself, rather than the special meaning that you
have assigned to it.

i.e., 'home-boy' would index "home" and "boy", but 'home\-boy' would index
the actual hyphenated word.

> Sorry for ranting and raving, but I just don;t know exactly how much we
> have to do.....

Always do as much as you can.  Then do some more.  Throw in everything you
can think of, as long as it doesn't confuse things-- put in ways to turn
on/off all your additional options (command line options, .rc files, etc.)

You want to beware of feature creep (when you have so many bells and
whistles that no one can figure them out), but I doubt if you'd reach a
level of functionality in a program like this when that would be a
problem.

-Jason
CPS 108 UTA


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