Re: Bug related to single-quoting a String

["Ronald Fischer" <ynnor@mm.st>]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, at 12:45, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:40 PM Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st> wrote:
> >
> > What I want to report can be a bugh either in the documentaion (man-page) or in the implementation, depending on which one is correct.
> >
> > I am running Zsh 5.5.1 for Cygwin (which seems to be the most recent one available for this platform).
> >
> > In the man-page, it says in the chapter about single-quoting a string:
> >
> >     A literal ' character can be included in the string by using the \' escape.
> 
> Here's the whole paragraph from which this quote is taken:
> 
>   A string enclosed between '$'' and ''' is processed the same way as the
>   string arguments of the print builtin, and the resulting string is
>   considered to be entirely quoted.  A literal ''' character can be
>   included in the string by using the '\'' escape.
> 
> It's talking about $'...'. Both the documentation and the
> implementation are correct.

However, if I do a

    echo $'a$b\'c'

it does not work either. Same effect!

Ronald