From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: 007 in vis.c
To: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Cc: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>, Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:17:59 -0600

Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org> wrote:

> The one-step vs two-step musings are less convincing since they don't
> really explain why \r and \b are much more prevalent than their octal
> representations.

\r is used a ton in the MSDOS environment.

\b has various uses.

\a or even \007 is astoundingly extremely rare.

My two-step "musings" were saying that \a is undiscoverable.

Is \a prettier?