Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Yes, I did, and now I see why you said there might be only a few broken
> > cases.  But I did not see any documentation in the standard saying that
> > was OK:
> >     http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#escaping
> 
> The example on that page is just bizarre.  If the first asterisk
> has to be escaped to prevent it being taken as markup, why doesn't the
> second have to be?  I suppose it's because there's no "closing" asterisk
> to match it, but that's not the sort of thing one ought to depend on.

So what would this show?
\*escape* \*escape*

Want to bet the second word it italics.

> > so it might be that your ReST interpreter is broken.
> 
> Looking at this I'd say the ReST standard is broken, or at least expects
> unreasonably complicated behavior.  But anyway, it's quite clear that
> there are *many* cases that need escaping, not only backslashes.

Yea, there doesn't seem to be enough information on that page to form a
standard behavior.

Ah, OK, here is where we should be looking:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html#reference-documentation

URL updated on TODO list.

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