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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:57:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: Backtick cannot be escaped in double-quoted string
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:40 AM, ZyX <zyx@np.by> wrote:
> When I write echo "\`abc'" instead of getting =AB`abc'=BB echoed I get pr=
ompt
> =ABdquote bquote>=BB. [...]  Zsh version 4.3.11-r1 (=AB-r1=BB means that =
ebuild
> maintainers did huge enough changes to the ebuild to repost it), Gentoo a=
md64.

I'm not able to reproduce this with ZSH_VERSION =3D 4.3.11-dev-1 and
ZSH_PATCHLEVEL =3D 1.5241, so unless you have an alias for echo that
might be changing the parse, this looks like a Gentoo-induced bug.