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Expanding subscript and subscript capabilities

Well, I liked the idea expressed in the question alternative syntax of subscripts using tex. But I want it to work in a sightly different way. I just want to expand the usual _ and ^. How? So that ...
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How to make a real backslash (escape) character?

I just want a good way to make a backslash character (or whatever character(s) any given format uses as escape characters), suitable to \write to a file or pass to a pdfTeX primitive. Let me ...