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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

  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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