Bukkit

To the best of my knowledge MyCmd does not possess any way to escape formatting codes like essentials does.

Example:

Code: &&c&c = Red

MyCmd Output: & = Red

Expected: &c = Red

Expected source code: <escaped&>c&c = Red

I'm thinking it'd be pretty easy (and useful) to add an '&' as an escape character so anytime there's '&&' it does not trigger a formatting.

Typically i go about doing this in my plugins like so:

public static String colorCode(String str)
{
	if (str != null) {
		str = str.replaceAll("&&", "<ampersand>");
		str = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', str);
		str = str.replaceAll("<ampersand>", "&");
		return str;
	} else {
		return null;
	}
}

For now you can use "$NoReplace" at the start of a string to not replace anything. Of course it's not  flexible like your suggestion, but i have to see if doing that i'm not going to break something or someone old command.

Bump, this could be extremely useful on my server. If you're worried about breaking something, you could always introduce it as a config option like

experimental_colorescape = false

or something ;P