The idea with \verb is that if you can select the quote arbitrarily, you don't _need_ an escape character, since you can put everything in unescaped as long as you pick a quote character which is not in the text.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-09-21 22:46: Subject: Re: wish: string with other quoting then \
Nice idea. But can it be extended so you can choose the escape character () too?
/ Mirar