Note that if you were to "fix" this, it would mean certain regexes would use "\\\\", and that sounds like it could be what you want the least. As for me, I don't mind whatever you choose as long as it's intentional. :-p
Yeah, \\ means \\. It's \n \r \t and \" that are
treated specially.
Though I realized Jarc needs a way
to enter non-printable characters, so I've added
\f
\a
\e
\0*oo*
\x*hh*
\u*hhhh*
None of those interfere with regular expressions. Though I still don't have an
intuitive way to put \e in a string. You can do \x5ce now (in Jarc 16)
but that's ugly. I guess \\ needs to be just \ when it's followed
by n r t f a e " 0 x or h. That's getting a bit complex, but I guess it's intuitive. Or maybe I should just add a regular expression literal with / delimiters like Perl has.