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On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ramsay Jones
<ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>> That would be workable, I would think.  Before attr:VAR=VAL
>> extention, supported pathspec <magic> were only single lowercase-ascii
>> alphabet tokens, so nobody would have used " as a part of magic.  So
>> quting with double-quote pair would work.
>
> I was thinking about both ' and ", so that you could do:

Yes, I understood your suggestion as such. Quoting like shells would work
without breaking backward compatibility for the same reason quoting with
double-quote and backslash only without supporting single-quotes would
work.