On 1/8/19 11:51 AM, Geoff Clare wrote:
> Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote, on 08 Jan 2019:
>>
>> | I would prefer that we not leave it unspecified when an alias ends with
>> "\ ".
>> | If there is a shell which does recursive alias expansion in this case, we
>> | should ask the authors/maintainers whether they are willing to change it
>> | to behave like other shells.
>>
>> I don't know of any, but I haven't tested them either ...
>
> Given Chet's reply, it looks like there may be more shells that do expand
> than don't. In which case I wonder why that "unquoted" text got added
> in 2016.
Based on the comments in issue 953, it happened on a phone conference,
so there's likely no record unless the etherpad still happens to exist.
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