this would help a lot.

Thanks.

What do you mean by escape? As far as I know, semi-colons in message boxes will always dictate send, and there is no way of "escaping" that. [list 1 2 ; 3 4] sort of works, but it prints with a bunch of slashes before the semi-colon. It seems that you can still route the list, including the semi-colon, as usual though.
You might also have luck in printing a semi-colon in one of the various text objects, [textfile], [msgfile], [qlist], etc. although I haven't tried this out. For [text define], a semi-colon will probably be interpreted as the beginning of a new line.

I will look into these. Prerequisites for using the shell object since a semicolon is a line seperator.

Also annoying little issue it has, well between it and extended: the truncating of lines so they wrap. Very nasty for the shell.