Re: Quoting special characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:22:57 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> It might be better to use a quoting regime that exploits the shell 
> rather than an independent quoting regime that operates entirely outside 
> the shell.  People who write makefiles need to know the shell quoting 
> rules already, so if 'make' uses compatible quoting rules it'd be one 
> less thing to learn.

Exactly my thoughts.