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The edit suggestion changes c:\\foo.txt to c:\\test1\\foo.txt to demonstrate that directories need to have their backslashes escaped as well. The reviewers likely thought that it was already clear that all backslashes, regardless of what they're delimiting, have to be doubled up to be escaped. In that light, the edit looked like it was just using a different example path, which doesn't add anything. Admittedly, if you haven't used programs or languages that require this kind of escaping, it might not jump out at you. (But now you know!)

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