On 07/30/2014 12:40 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>>> 2. Shall we stick to '+' as the separator char or choose another one?
>>>    If so, which one?
>>
>> How about "@"?
> 
> Dunno.  It *might* be a good alternative to '+'.  Personally I just
> dislike that a '@' is a less "light" character and it might give a wrong
> idea.  Email:  name AT domain.  Cygwin account:  domain AT name.

How bad would it be to treat the window's DOMAIN\user as cygwin
user@DOMAIN?  Yes, it means string-splicing to rearrange strings when
converting between the two forms, rather than just single-character
replacement, but it might work.

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