Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.

[Omar Polo]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:00 PM Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Why the \ has two forms in the ascii document as shown below:
>
> $ man ascii | grep -F '\\'
>        034   28    1C    FS  (file separator)        134   92    5C    \  '\\'
>
> As you can see, the document gives two forms of it:
>
>  \  '\\'

I guess, but it's only a guess, that's because \ is used for escaping
chars.  Even in the command you gave as an example you wrote '\\' (and
not '\') because otherwise the \ would have escaped the quote.  You can
see something similar in other columns, like for the tab '\t' or the
newline '\n'.