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From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>,
	Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Test version before zsh 5.4
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 18:00:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96245589-7b8a-6532-3c9b-85304b0064be@inlv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170731214745.6f81a0f4@ntlworld.com>

I found a problem with the shell's generation of C-style shell-quoted
strings ($'...').

% testvar=$'one\\two\n'
breedzicht% set|grep ^testvar
testvar=$'one\two\n'

The backslash is not escaped properly.

- M.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-03 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20170731204904epcas4p290cb92dadba8d78676093dd6f8411c9f@epcas4p2.samsung.com>
     [not found] ` <20170731214745.6f81a0f4@ntlworld.com>
2017-08-03 11:07   ` Peter Stephenson
2017-08-03 16:00   ` Martijn Dekker [this message]
2017-08-03 17:57     ` Martijn Dekker
2017-08-03 20:33       ` Peter Stephenson

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