From kfm-devel  Mon Jun 11 20:18:00 2001
From: Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:18:00 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: A more flexible solution for internet keywords
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=99229500632319

On Monday 11 June 2001 14:27, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Andreas et al.,
>
> BTW, a way to not break backwards compatibility would be to use another
> character than \ as the magic character for the new syntax. Maybe $ for
> example. So we would keep \1 and \2 meaning what they mean today, but for
> automagic splitting one would use $ to refer to specific "fields".

Good idea except $ is a valid character for thequery component of a URL and as such
might be incorrectly parsed under some conditions :( Perhaps the "pipe" | would be a
good replacement since it is not a valid character in a URL ?

Regards,
Dawit A.