From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:40:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547F9F8A.60706@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aWkfTgRdKTcHjKJHCTfwhLhk8WaAMKABO8=AvEcJ5Nyg@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/03/2014 01:22 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> (The special meaning of backslash to certain commands like print and
> echo is entirely separate from quoting, though often similar in effect.)
Yeah, that's a gotcha that I now get, but it sure caused me some grief.
I wish there was some string modifier that distinguished between
backslash as quote, and backslash as escape. Maybe that's not doable,
but I run into situations where I need to protect a ' \n ' but don't
care about stripping the backslash off what is a 'real' quoted
character. I now know that the escape situation is, technically, not
the shell's business, OTOH shell builtins might perhaps not be treated
like total strangers when it comes to escapes since they are obviously
in the family.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 0:17 Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 3:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 4:28 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 4:38 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 16:20 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 16:43 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 17:10 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 17:39 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-12-03 21:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:14 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-04 5:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-04 18:42 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-06 21:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-07 0:37 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-03 21:16 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-03 21:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-03 23:40 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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