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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2022-01-16 14:19:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2022-01-16 14:19:30 +0200 |
| commit | 54c56af1067df562c232cb73b9a1b85f67d9bbf1 (patch) | |
| tree | 573f87f7fc0434b28e8f6cb0ca1952bc52f1c92c /doc | |
| parent | 5d425b7578484e7feeaa94d419f5c4bb5ea28475 (diff) | |
Expand on extension escaping in manual
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual.cli | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli index 179024a..4fb8f5a 100644 --- a/doc/manual.cli +++ b/doc/manual.cli @@ -4147,8 +4147,14 @@ specified for our source files. \N|If you need to specify a name that does not have an extension, then end it with a single dot. For example, for a header \c{utility} you would write -\c{hxx{utility.\}}. If you need to specify a name with an actual trailing -dot, then escape it with a double dot, for example, \c{hxx{utility..\}}.| +\c{hxx{utility.\}}. If you need to specify a name with an actual trailing dot, +then escape it with a double dot, for example, \c{hxx{utility..\}}. + +More generally, anywhere in a name, a double dot can be used to specify a dot +that should not be considered the extension separator while a triple dot \- +which should. For example, in \c{obja{foo.a.o\}} the extension is \c{.o} and +if instead we wanted \c{.a.o} to be considered the extension, then we could +rewrite it either as \c{obja{foo.a..o\}} or as \c{obja{foo...a.o\}}.| The next couple of lines set target type/pattern-specific variables to treat all unit test executables as tests that should not be installed: |