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Re: bug with multiline strings parsing and single-quoted !
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: bug with multiline strings parsing and single-quoted ! |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Dec 2014 10:04:04 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:51:08PM +0400, Gennady Kupava wrote:
> That was quite unexpected for me as a user. I checked sed script like this:
> echo "a
> b"| sed '/a/!d'
>
> And that implementation detail were highly unexpected... What is the point
> of multiline edits if quotes are unreliable for certain characters?
Disabling history expansion fixes all of these problems (at the cost
of history expansion, obviously).
I added set +o histexpand to my .bashrc years ago, back when
echo "Hello world!" broke everything horribly. I have no regrets.