On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:16, Robert Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 02:29, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > If I submit a patch using shell functions to make the sed substitutions > > > in config.status "comma safe", will it be considered? > > > > I suspect that's more likely that we'll introduce shell functions in > > new features than start right away in replacing old code with shell > > functions. This process has already started. At some point it will > > gather steam but it might be a bit early right now.
It occurs to me that this could also be solved by generating a small standalone script using the tmpdir mechanism, to replace the shell function. Would that solution be preferable? Bob
