ℙ𝕖𝕡 🙴 ℕ𝕠𝕞

You can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. African saying

the ℕ𝕠𝕞 echar command

Change the escape character used by escape and nom//unescape and also used by the until command. The default escape character for all nom scripts is the backslash \\ but this can be changed anywhere in the script with the echar command.

change the default escape character to "



   begin { echar '"'; }
   read; '"' { until '"'; print; }  
   clear;

In the script above, only text between quotes will be printed but the until command will 'read past' doubled double quotes because it will regard them as 'escaped'.

notes

To tell the truth, I have never actually used this command in any nom script. But I can think of plenty of times when it would be necessary. Unfortunately, there are probably a number of languages and formats where the escape character is actually multiple characters and the pep machine is currently (sept 2025) unable to accomodate this.