Re: [9front] plumbing with spaces

[umbraticus@prosimetrum.com]

> "sadly the newline messes things up"
> which step actually messes it up? i realize only now that i never
> understood how this works.

Same. Thinking about it a bit, I'd say it probably has to do with
the regexps used in plumb rules: \n does not match a newline,
nor can you embed a literal one due to how the rules file is parsed.

e.g. sam & sed both mention something along these lines in their
respective manpages; here's sam(1):

	Regular expressions are as in regexp(6) with the addition of
	\n to represent newlines.

So to allow newlines in plumb "matches" rules those programs could
be a place to look. (or else make this a standard feature of regexp??)

umbraticus