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Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com> writes:

> But if there is now a prefix, I feel that it might as well be chosen so that it
> is easier to remember and/or less likely to cause conflicts.

Another criteria is that it is not very often used in real
pathnames, of course, and '!' and '$' are good ones.

Come to think of it, we might be able to retrofit '!' without too
much damage.  Something like "!unignored" is now a deprecated but
still supported way to say "!!unignored", "!*precious" is new, and
"\!anything" is a pathname that begins with '!'.

> Yes, I think my paragraph above is exactly that but with examples to practice
> the new syntax-proposal.

OK.