gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman) (01/08/88)
Copy Mode in Vr2 (at least) troff does not work as documented. According
to Ossanna, the only bash-interpretations in Copy Mode are \n, \*, \$,
\NEWLINE, \", \t, \a, \., and \\.
According to the source code, \e, \ , \|, \^, \{, \}, \', \`,
\_, \-, \&, \c, \!, \%, and \g are translated as well. That is, they
are interpreted as escapes, though the escape functions are not performed
at once.
Repeat by:
.de W
This is a bashdash \-.
..
'\" Disable bash-escaping.
.eo
This is a bashdash \-.
.W
Since this bug or feature interferes with the .ec/.eo feature, it ought
to be documented. (I discovered it while writing a dump-macro macro.)
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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