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Subject: Re: triviality with prompts
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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(Oops, sorry for Cc'ing everybody on that last message.)

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> But the zshbuiltins page, under 'print' doesn't go into any detail about
> this    $'foo'
> form.

It doesn't go into detail about ANY form of quoting ... because
quoting is evaluated the same way no matter what command is involved.

(The special meaning of backslash to certain commands like print and
echo is entirely separate from quoting, though often similar in
effect.)