From: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] \e in "echo" and "printf" builtins
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:52:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AEF2E3.5080205@gigawatt.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140628045653.GA5097@angband.pl>
On 28/06/14 06:56, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure what's your policy towards extensions, but \e as \033 is
> something ubiquitous in the Unix world. C compilers (gcc, clang, icc and
> tcc -- but not MSVC), perl, shells (bash and zsh -- but not dash), etc.
>
> What about supporting it in dash as well?
> Patch attached.
Hi,
No comment on whether dash itself should accept \e, but you already
found a compiler that doesn't support it at all, and many of the ones
that do support it also (optionally) issue a warning for it. Should the
C code perhaps be using \033 instead of \e?
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-28 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-28 4:56 [PATCH] \e in "echo" and "printf" builtins Adam Borowski
2014-06-28 16:52 ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2014-06-28 17:27 ` Adam Borowski
2014-07-23 9:11 ` Adam Borowski
2014-07-23 10:26 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2014-06-28 17:33 ` Paul Gilmartin
2014-06-29 9:28 ` Harald van Dijk
2014-06-30 13:08 ` Eric Blake
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