If EDITOR is set to vi, you type part of name, and then click Escape followed by a backslash (\) character.

如果EDITOR设置为vi，那么您键入部分名称，然后按esc键，后跟反斜杠(\)字符。

youdao

So, if I want to encode O'Reilly in a single quoted string, I must escape it using backslash, 'O\'Reilly'.

所以，如果我想用单引号编码 O'Reilly，我就必须使用反斜杠对它进行转义：'O\'Reilly'。

youdao

A backslash can escape a double quote, or any single whitespace character.

后斜杠可以对双引号或任一空白字符进行转义。

youdao

It gets really kind of trippy if you wanna output a backslash, \ you can't just use the backslash, \\ you need to use backslash backslash because otherwise a single backslash is confused with the so called escape character.

如果你想输出一个反斜杠，估计又得迷糊了，实际上，你不能直接用，而是要,否则一个\可能会被误认为,是转义字符。

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So you have what are called escape characters like backslash N that is the shorthand notation of telling the computer put a new line character here.

幸亏我们有一些类似反斜杠n的转义字符,这只是一种简化方式,用来告知电脑要在这新添一行。

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