GNU bug report logs - #59622
29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of escaped newlines

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Message #26 received at 59622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59622: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of
 escaped newlines
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:34:36 +0200

> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 20:18:30 -0800
> Cc: 59622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
> 
> > The last sentence is very unclear, please try saying what you need in a
> > clearer way, and/or maybe add a couple of examples.
> 
> Ok, I expanded that part of the manual and added a few more examples. 
> How does this look?

Much better, thanks.

> I also split the patch in two: the first patch for the 29 branch (which 
> makes the least code changes I could manage), and the second as an 
> additional small cleanup patch for master only.

Since which Emacs version do we have this regression?  If it's a very
old regression, I'd prefer not to fix it on the emacs-29 branch.

>  @subsection Quoting and escaping
>  As with other shells, you can escape special characters and spaces
> -with by prefixing the character with a backslash (@code{\}), or by
> -surrounding the string with apostrophes (@code{''}) or double quotes
> -(@code{""}).  This is needed especially for file names with special
> -characters like pipe (@code{|}), which could be part of remote file
> +with by prefixing the character with a backslash (@samp{\}), or by

"with by prefixing" is a typo; probably "with" should be dropped.

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