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From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | bug#59622: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of escaped newlines |
Date: | Tue, 6 Dec 2022 20:18:30 -0800 |
On 12/5/2022 4:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
+When you escape a character with @code{\} outside of quotes, the +result is the literal character immediately following it, so +@samp{\$10} means the literal string @code{$10}. Inside of +double quotes, the result is the literal character following it if +that character is special, or the full @code{\@var{c}} sequence +otherwise; inside double-quotes, @code{\}, @code{"}, and @code{$} are +considered special.The last sentence is very unclear, please try saying what you need in a clearer way, and/or maybe add a couple of examples.
Ok, I expanded that part of the manual and added a few more examples. How does this look?
I also split the patch in two: the first patch for the 29 branch (which makes the least code changes I could manage), and the second as an additional small cleanup patch for master only.
29.1--0001-Treat-escaped-newlines-in-Eshell-as-the-empty-string.patch
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master--0002-Reorganize-the-conditionals-in-eshell-parse-backslas.patch
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