On 2022-10-14 13:38, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Don't fixate on filenames ending in spaces. The standard behavior of backslash is to escape the following character, whatever it is, with the exception of LF. Having \ SP behave differently depending on whether it is at the end of a line or not would be ridiculous.
I understand, best to keep it simple and consistent even if there is 'invisible' trouble on occasion. Once one is fully aware of the issue the problem is easily detected. A special case exception here might be doable but it isn't necessary. Come to think about it, I've run into this issue before, I'd just forgotten because as I said I had my editor set to remove trailing spaces automatically.