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help: deprecate ui.slash in favor of slashpath template filter (issue5572)

> For some reason, I thought someone (Mads?) said we had basically given
> up on ui.slash, and some commands didn't support it.
(from https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5572#c1)

So the ui.slash option doesn't always work and is somewhat confusing. Let's
make it clearer we won't improve the situation.

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