Subject: Re: Re: [shell-discuss] Fwd: ksh93 in os200811 bug or feature ? --------
> Other shells use \-escaping rather than '-quoting in completed strings > for just this reason. Would that work here? > > I think that it should. I used the ' quoting method because the function to do that already existed and it handles escape sequences like \t. I makde the change here to do \ escaping and if it all seems to work ok, the next update will include it. Unfortunately, I don't have any automated testing for interactive use. David Korn dgk at research.att.com
