>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> So we are looking for specially non special characters. @__@?
Paul> Any repeated character will make the string more likely.
Paul> How about @&t@? That would be easy to remember as expanding to
Paul> the empty string, as the mnemonic would be "amp tee". (Here's
Paul> where I duck to avoid being hit by a tomato....)
& is special: I've been bitten by this AWK program:
gsub ("@comment.*", "@&t@", line);
which of course had the result of prefixing with @, suffixing with &@.
I backlashed it and it works, but do we want to keep sth like this?
