shooting in the foot with caret ^ on windows

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 13:53 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> C:\discovery>hg log -r tip^ --style compact
>> 108   6dab298d9851   2014-05-16 21:40 +0300   techtonik
>>   graphics/pysdl2/demofire.py: 1.5 - Fire Plane (not optimized)
> ...
>> It would be nice to mention this on
>> http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/revsets and link to
>> cross-platform alternative.
>
> Docs: sure, send a patch.

Is there online editor somewhere?

> As for a shell-safe alternative, the following symbols aren't suitable:
>
> `~!@#$%&*()_-+=\|:;'"<>,./?
>
> ..because they're either used by a common shell and/or revsets already.
> As that's every single other symbol on a US keyboard, I'm going to have
> to deny your request.

Isn't something like parents(tip)[3] is an safe alternative to tip^3 ?