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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 18:43:50 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DObOJUSdDPEsTwAKjXMYiOyf7P_6oEE9xbU6QFz7rOxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01ADED0717024E6F93B7FBADB1AEAE6B@PhilipOakley>

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>> Asciidoc 8.2.6 does not like me writing
>> "Put \# if you need a literal #.." so I go with "backslash" and
>> "hash" instead. `\!` displays fine both in man page and html format.
>> '!' changed to `!` because it looks clearer in monospace.
>
>
> Why not put the backslash-hash in back quotes as well to give the same
> look/feel consistency?

Because asciidoc does not like \#, '\#' nor `\#`. It just shows \
without # and I don't want to master asciidoc just to make it show \#.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-06 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-06  8:38 [PATCH] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-06 11:33 ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-06 11:43   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2012-10-06 13:21     ` Jeff King
2012-10-06 13:51       ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-06 15:40         ` Jeff King
2012-10-06 18:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-07  3:13             ` [PATCH v3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

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