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You can't use "\" for escape character, because you woudn't be able to put the literal "\" in text, since {{{\\}}} is taken. And yes, I was aware of that when it was introduced.
I don't think that introducing yet another new mechanism for how markup works is desirable. Right now we have basically two machanisms: parenthesis-like, for bold, italic, unformatted, links, etc., and a marker at the beginning of the line, for headings, links and tables. They are both encoutered in everyday life and easy to learn by observation.
Now, the notion of "escape character" is familiar for programmers. And that's it. It introduces a new way that markup works, makes the text hard to read and laborous to write or modify. It is also very awkward to parse using regular expressions, as you have to take it into account as a negated regexp (which are already pretty hard to write) in each and every pattern you use. Finally, I'm not aware of any wiki engine that'd use it (!NoWiki is a tad different and convoluted already).
Honestly, I can't see a situation where you really need an eascape character. The {{{{{{unformatted}}}}}} text is enough, and if you need the monospaced text to be meaningful, use {{{##monospaced##}}} or {{{##{{{unformatted monospaced}}}}}}{{{##}}} and you're set. Sure, they are a little lenghty. But they **are** exceptions, so they should stick out from the text.
-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-02-11
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47 26-Sep-2007 09:06 9.405 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last restore
46 26-Sep-2007 00:56 9.425 kB 219.138.204.162 to previous | to last
45 05-May-2007 20:05 9.405 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last artist's decision
44 05-May-2007 14:09 9.222 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last should nowiki linewrap?
43 11-Feb-2007 23:52 8.985 kB null to previous | to last Agree to separate preformatted and monospace
42 11-Feb-2007 14:27 8.56 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last against escape characters
41 11-Feb-2007 09:23 7.131 kB MicheleTomaiuolo to previous | to last escape char
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