Re: underscore in text

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> Recent cvs defaults to enhanced text mode.
[[...]]
> I would have thought that underscores in user-supplied titles and labels
> were more likely to be intended as subscripts than literals, but I could be wrong.
> 
> What would you prefer?
> Revert the change in default terminal setting?
> Revert the default state of just the "set title" command?
> More obvious warnings that something has changed?
> Some other combination?

I was (am) under the impression that strings in "double quotes" use
enhanced mode if it's enabled, while strings in 'single quotes' never
use enhanced mode.  Is this correct?

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