Hi Jean,

>Sorry for the late reply, I have been away from home due to unexpected
>family issues.

no problem.

>for -e must be fairly limited. As I understand it, the only purpose of
>the option is to cancel a previous -r, which is kind of a corner case.

The ksh93 manpage documents it as such, yes.

>Fair enough. I hope this minor incompatibility won't be a problem for
>out customer.

OK. Handling _that_ would be maximally tricky (escape from the getopts
framework, etc).

>> This will be in the next mksh release.
>
>Thank you very much. I have backported your work to mksh R50 as this is
>what our product includes, and will send to our customer shortly for
>testing.

OK, wonderful, thanks!

>Now that the print command supports option -e and it is documented,
>it should also appear in the command synopsis.

Good catch! I merged it, and while there, fixed another small bug.

bye,
//mirabilos
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