diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b41ca378ac..5be47ba928 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -246,3 +246,8 @@ javascript/new-src/node_modules
 .cproject
 .settings
 .vscode/
+# QtCreator project files
+*.config
+*.creator*
+*.files
+*.includes
diff --git a/.travis-ci.sh b/.travis-ci.sh
index 466503673f..16df5a7da4 100755
--- a/.travis-ci.sh
+++ b/.travis-ci.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,19 @@ COVERITY_SCAN_BUILD_URL="https://scan.coverity.com/scripts/travisci_build_coveri
 
 PYCHECKER_BLACKLIST="threading,unittest,cmd,optparse,google,google.protobuf,ssl,fftpack,lapack_lite,mtrand"
 
-SPELLINGBLACKLIST=$(cat <<-BLACKLIST
+LINT_BLACKLIST=$(cat <<-EO_LINT_BL
+        -wholename "./common/protocol/Ola.pb.*" -or \
+        -wholename "./common/rpc/Rpc.pb.*" -or \
+        -wholename "./common/rpc/TestService.pb.*" -or \
+        -wholename "./common/rdm/Pids.pb.*" -or \
+        -wholename "./config.h" -or \
+        -wholename "./plugins/*/messages/*ConfigMessages.pb.*" -or \
+        -wholename "./tools/ola_trigger/config.tab.*" -or \
+        -wholename "./tools/ola_trigger/lex.yy.cpp"
+EO_LINT_BL
+)
+
+SPELLING_BLACKLIST=$(cat <<-EO_SPELL_BL
       -wholename "./.codespellignore" -or \
       -wholename "./.git/*" -or \
       -wholename "./aclocal.m4" -or \
@@ -43,7 +55,7 @@ SPELLINGBLACKLIST=$(cat <<-BLACKLIST
       -wholename "./plugins/artnet/messages/ArtNetConfigMessages.pb.*" -or \
       -wholename "./tools/ola_trigger/config.tab.*" -or \
       -wholename "./tools/ola_trigger/lex.yy.cpp"
-BLACKLIST
+EO_SPELL_BL
 )
 
 if [[ $TASK = 'lint' ]]; then
@@ -69,19 +81,12 @@ if [[ $TASK = 'lint' ]]; then
     echo "Found $nolints generic NOLINTs"
   fi;
   # then fetch and run the main cpplint tool
+  lintfiles=$(eval "find ./ \( -name "*.h" -or -name "*.cpp" \) -and ! \( $LINT_BLACKLIST \) | xargs")
   wget -O cpplint.py $CPP_LINT_URL;
   chmod u+x cpplint.py;
   ./cpplint.py \
     --filter=-legal/copyright,-readability/streams,-runtime/arrays \
-    $(find ./ \( -name "*.h" -or -name "*.cpp" \) -and ! \( \
-        -wholename "./common/protocol/Ola.pb.*" -or \
-        -wholename "./common/rpc/Rpc.pb.*" -or \
-        -wholename "./common/rpc/TestService.pb.*" -or \
-        -wholename "./common/rdm/Pids.pb.*" -or \
-        -wholename "./config.h" -or \
-        -wholename "./plugins/*/messages/*ConfigMessages.pb.*" -or \
-        -wholename "./tools/ola_trigger/config.tab.*" -or \
-        -wholename "./tools/ola_trigger/lex.yy.cpp" \) | xargs)
+     $lintfiles
   if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
     exit 1;
   fi;
@@ -116,7 +121,7 @@ elif [[ $TASK = 'spellintian' ]]; then
   make builtfiles;
   travis_fold end "make_builtfiles"
   spellingfiles=$(eval "find ./ -type f -and ! \( \
-      $SPELLINGBLACKLIST \
+      $SPELLING_BLACKLIST \
       \) | xargs")
   # count the number of spellintian errors, ignoring duplicate words
   spellingerrors=$(zrun spellintian $spellingfiles 2>&1 | grep -v "\(duplicate word\)" | wc -l)
@@ -142,7 +147,7 @@ elif [[ $TASK = 'spellintian-duplicates' ]]; then
   make builtfiles;
   travis_fold end "make_builtfiles"
   spellingfiles=$(eval "find ./ -type f -and ! \( \
-      $SPELLINGBLACKLIST \
+      $SPELLING_BLACKLIST \
       \) | xargs")
   # count the number of spellintian errors
   spellingerrors=$(zrun spellintian $spellingfiles 2>&1 | wc -l)
@@ -168,7 +173,7 @@ elif [[ $TASK = 'codespell' ]]; then
   make builtfiles;
   travis_fold end "make_builtfiles"
   spellingfiles=$(eval "find ./ -type f -and ! \( \
-      $SPELLINGBLACKLIST \
+      $SPELLING_BLACKLIST \
       \) | xargs")
   # count the number of codespell errors
   spellingerrors=$(zrun codespell --check-filenames --check-hidden --quiet 2 --regex "[a-zA-Z0-9][\\-'a-zA-Z0-9]+[a-zA-Z0-9]" --exclude-file .codespellignore $spellingfiles 2>&1 | wc -l)
diff --git a/plugins/convert_README_to_header.sh b/plugins/convert_README_to_header.sh
index 86b1b42f09..e7bf244828 100755
--- a/plugins/convert_README_to_header.sh
+++ b/plugins/convert_README_to_header.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ outfilename=`basename $outfile`;
 # See http://stackoverflow.com/a/16576291
 # On Mac OS's sed, \n is not recognized as a newline character, but
 # \[actual newline] works
-desc=`sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\"/\\\"/g' -e 's/\n/\\\\n"\\
+desc=`sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\\\/\\\\\\\/g' -e 's/\"/\\\"/g'\
+ -e 's/\n/\\\\n"\\
 "/g' "$path/README.md"`;
 
 identifier=`echo "PLUGINS_${plugin}_${outfilename%.h}_H_" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`